Sitting of 2 March 1998

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Commons Sitting of 2 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. HOME DEPARTMENT 6 words
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2. Victim Support Week 346 words
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3. Crime 307 words
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4. Prison Population 688 words
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5. Voluntary Sector 382 words
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6. Prison and Probation Services 533 words
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7. Disorder and Antisocial Behaviour 758 words
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8. Private Prisons 277 words
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9. Electoral Systems 682 words
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10. Electronic Tagging 359 words
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11. Criminal Justice System (Delays) 408 words
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12. Criminal Justice System 388 words
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13. Prisons (Drug Testing) 374 words
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14. Budget Allocation 520 words
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15. Crime Against Businesses 342 words
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16. Prison Medical Service 260 words
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17. Alcohol (Young People) 357 words
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18. Human Rights Bill 539 words
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19. Internet (Racist and Anti-Semitic Material) 330 words
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20. Young Offender Teams 222 words
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21. Antisocial Behaviour 247 words
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4. Points of Order 388 words
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5. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 30 words
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6. NORTHERN IRELAND 77 words
7. Orders of the Day
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1. Government of Wales Bill 16 words
1. New clause 40
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1. FORESTRY COMMISSIONERS' FINANCES 8,494 words
2. New clause 38
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1. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 193 words
2. New clause 29
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1. ABOLITION OF RESIDUARY BODY FOR WALES 970 words
3. New clause 28
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1. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE 158 words
4. New clause 7
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1. PRIVATE AND LOCAL LEGISLATION 2,581 words
5. New clause 11
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1. POWER TO CONDUCT REFERENDA 4,605 words
6. New clause 12
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1. ADVICE FROM UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT STAFF 3,220 words
7. New clause 14
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1. CONSULTATION WITH BUSINESSES 3,833 words
8. New clause 21
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1. DECISIONS AFFECTING VITAL INTERESTS OF A REGION 17,123 words, 1 division
9. New Clause 22
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1. EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES (WELSH PUBLIC BODIES) 5,476 words
10. New clause 31
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1. TREASURY CONSENT (LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE AND COUNCIL TAX) 1,239 words
11. New clause 32
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1. ASSEMBLY TO BE SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATION BY PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER 800 words
12. New clause 35
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1. CANDIDATURES 2,390 words
13. New clause 36
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1. RIGHTS OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS REPRESENTING PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES IN WALES 3,232 words
14. New clause 39
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1. ROLE OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 3,070 words
15. New Schedule 1
1. FORESTRY COMMISSIONERS
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1. Separate exercise of functions in relation to Wales 485 words
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2. Receipts 149 words
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3. Accounts 151 words
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4. Audit 136 words
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5. Accounting officer 168 words
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6. Examinations into use of resources 173 words
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7. Examinations by the Comptroller and Auditor General 170 words
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8. Reports 76 words
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9. Interpretation 47 words
16. Schedule 14
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1. REPEALS 101 words
17. Clause 144
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1. ORDERS AND DIRECTIONS 1,558 words
18. Clause 145
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1. INTERPRETATION 1,106 words
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2. HOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 29 words
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3. SCOTTISH AFFAIRS COMMITTEE 28 words
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4. TREASURY COMMITTEE 28 words
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19. Community Hospitals 3,890 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 2 March 1998 Series 6 Vol. 307

1. PRIME MINISTER
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1. City of London Corporation 125 words
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2. Iraq 267 words
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3. Ministerial Responsibilities 106 words
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4. State Opening of Parliament 70 words
2. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. British Library 138 words
3. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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1. Prosecutions (Sussex) 238 words
4. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
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1. Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency 197 words
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2. Computer Systems 264 words
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3. Age Discrimination 161 words
5. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
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1. Official Entertainment 65 words
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2. Departmental Buildings 45 words
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3. Drink Driving 107 words
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4. Public Transport (London) 184 words
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5. Noise Warnings 189 words
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6. Strategic Roads Review 49 words
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7. Civil Aviation Authority 71 words
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8. Rail Franchises 89 words
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9. Car Clocking 120 words
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10. Hedges 104 words
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11. Diabetics (Vehicle Licences) 114 words
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12. Waste Management 506 words
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13. Irish Sea 265 words
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14. Buildings Insulation 295 words
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15. Building Conversions 246 words
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16. Housing Development (Nottinghamshire) 109 words
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17. Air Safety 117 words
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18. House Building 129 words
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19. Motorway Services (Solihull) 84 words
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20. "Modernising Planning" 79 words
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21. Planning Appeals 155 words
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22. Planning Inspectors 65 words
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23. Gipsy Sites 220 words
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24. Railfreight Grants 137 words
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25. Planning Applications 139 words
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26. Works of Art 118 words
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27. Hedgerows 34 words
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28. Motorway Roadworks 380 words
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29. Coalfield Task Force 297 words
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30. Road Traffic 91 words
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31. Confined Spaces Regulations 67 words
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32. Housing 453 words
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33. Road Traffic (Short Journeys) 98 words
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34. Department of Transport (Fees) (Amendment) Order 146 words
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35. Driver Records 143 words
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36. Local Government Services 67 words
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37. Highways (Noise Pollution) 91 words
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38. Leaded Petrol 354 words
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39. Telecommunications Masts 141 words
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40. Regional Development Agencies 320 words
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41. Local Government Finance (Tewkesbury) 359 words
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42. European Charter of Local Self-Government 139 words
6. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Queen's Counsel 29 words
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2. Health and Food Safety Research 55 words
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3. Labour Relations Agency 153 words
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4. Radioactive Waste 570 words
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5. Schools 129 words
7. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. Microcredit 155 words
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2. Reproductive Health Care 131 words
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3. India 117 words
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4. Mixed Credits 177 words
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5. Education Projects 239 words
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6. Russia 269 words
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7. Peru 127 words
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8. Mozambique 161 words
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9. Intellectual Property Rights 174 words
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10. Biodiversity 193 words
8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Europe 2010 Dining Club 97 words
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2. Visa Applications 161 words
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3. Sierra Leone 162 words
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4. Immigration 68 words
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5. Sudan 94 words
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6. Schengen Agreement 86 words
9. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
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1. Conferences 67 words
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2. Queen's Counsel 612 words
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3. Court Rules and Procedures 138 words
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4. Legal Aid 85 words
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5. Small Claims 45 words
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6. Community Legal Service 102 words
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7. Crown Courts 105 words
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8. Magistrates 338 words
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9. Legal Services Ombudsman 63 words
10. SCOTLAND
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1. Theft and Fraud 94 words
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2. Queen's Counsel 83 words
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3. Funicular Railway, Cairngorm 154 words
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4. Driving (Drugs) 48 words
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5. Skye Bridge 103 words
11. TREASURY
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1. Computer Systems 278 words
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2. Multilateral Agreement on Investment 126 words
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3. Credit Control 73 words
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4. Credit Controls 58 words
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5. Barn Conversions (VAT) 34 words
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6. Euro 138 words
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7. Works of Art 115 words
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8. Lloyd's 279 words
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9. Economic and Monetary Union 83 words
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10. Abortions 240 words
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11. Asbestosis 279 words
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12. NUTS Review 246 words
12. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Dietary Supplements 119 words
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2. Defence Exports 92 words
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3. Sulphur Dioxide Emissions 235 words
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4. Insolvency 555 words
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5. Accountants (Money Laundering) 122 words
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6. Newspapers (Market Share) 73 words
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7. Motor Vehicle Warranties 405 words
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8. Independent Committee for Supervision of Telephone Services 92 words
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9. First Bus (Glasgow) 96 words
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10. Imutran 84 words
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11. Gas Deregulation 79 words
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12. Employment Rights 96 words
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13. Coal 82 words
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14. Bank Holidays 166 words
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15. NUTS Review 264 words
13. WALES
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1. Mental Health Unit, Bronllys 91 words
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2. Coastal Defences 84 words
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3. Housing 412 words
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4. Welsh Development Agency 68 words
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5. Welsh Assembly 95 words
14. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Sex Offenders 71 words
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2. Crime Prevention 95 words
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3. Avon and Somerset Police Authority 83 words
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4. Firearms (Compensation) 131 words
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5. Members of Parliament (Offence of Bribery) 126 words
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6. World Cup 80 words
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7. Young Offenders Teams 113 words
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8. Juveniles (Secure Accommodation) 118 words
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9. Children (Pornography) 149 words
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10. Disorder and Anti-social Behaviour 107 words
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11. Young Offenders 90 words
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12. Terrorist Organisations 74 words
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13. Alcohol (Young People) 108 words
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14. Restorative Justice 80 words
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15. Schengen Agreement 260 words
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16. Conferences 117 words
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17. Laboratory of the Government Chemist 120 words
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18. Ministerial Meetings 130 words
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19. Prisoners (Sexually Explicit Material) 110 words
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20. Domestic Violence 379 words
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21. Remand Prisoners 145 words
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22. Prisoners (Violent Offences) 189 words
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23. Driving (Drugs) 51 words
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24. Iraq 301 words
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25. Works of Art 117 words
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26. Casual Employees (Retirement) 195 words
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27. Police Disciplinary Procedures 71 words
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28. European Parliament 67 words
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29. Detention Centres (Inspections) 145 words
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30. Private Prisons (Suicide and Self-Injury) 178 words
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31. Public Marches 622 words
15. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
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1. Luxembourg Summit 298 words
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2. European Funding 208 words
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3. Lipreading 40 words
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4. New Deal 762 words
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5. Lone Parents 97 words
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6. Hearing-impaired Children 145 words
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7. Environmental Task Force 219 words
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8. Young Unemployed 216 words
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9. Primary School Places (Tooting) 68 words
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10. Nursery School Entitlement 208 words
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11. Single Parents 220 words
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12. Standard Assessment Tests 136 words
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13. Employment Service (Documents) 246 words
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14. Student Loans 116 words
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15. Lifelong Learning 95 words
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16. Utilities 177 words
16. HEALTH
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1. London Hospitals 711 words
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2. Home Care Staff 88 words
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3. Ambulance Services 84 words
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4. NHS Charges 289 words
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5. Rubella Vaccine 206 words
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6. Joint Replacements 201 words
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7. NHS Trusts 74 words
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8. Continence Products (VAT) 75 words
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9. Cannabis 57 words
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10. Nursery Inspections 223 words
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11. Vitamin B6 94 words
17. DEFENCE
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1. Departmental Publicity 107 words
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2. Ministerial Transport 237 words
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3. Broughton Moor 182 words
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4. Gunwharf, Portsmouth 213 words
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5. RAF Menwith Hill 77 words
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6. US Visiting Forces 280 words
18. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Service Delivery (Costs) 95 words
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2. Market Research 245 words
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3. Overseas Travel 74 words
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4. Buildings Refurbishment 121 words
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5. Official Hospitality 70 words
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6. Empty Properties 248 words
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7. Meat Export Licences 150 words
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8. Relative Stability 84 words
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9. Advertising Contracts 152 words
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10. Conferences 64 words
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11. Designated Ports 65 words
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12. Black Fish 96 words
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13. Farm Incomes 436 words
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14. Food Labelling 154 words
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15. Agriculture Payments 139 words
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16. Beef 390 words
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17. Fisheries 105 words
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18. Food Standards Agency 205 words
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19. Vitamin B6 537 words
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20. Biodiversity 190 words
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21. Sheep Dipping 49 words
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22. BSE (Compensation) 88 words
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23. Works of Art 114 words
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24. Fish (Disease) 217 words
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25. Diversification 179 words
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26. Cattle Passports 102 words
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27. Beef Export Ban 152 words
19. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. Social Fund Loans 187 words
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2. National Insurance 73 words
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3. Independent Tribunal Service 159 words
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4. Income Support 511 words
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5. Disability 99 words
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6. Pensions 542 words
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7. Benefits Backdating 115 words
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8. Child Support 78 words
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9. Benefit Integrity Project 160 words
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10. Lone Parents 769 words
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11. Housing Benefit 370 words
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12. Disability Living Allowance 176 words
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13. Parliamentary Questions 55 words
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14. Social Security Reform 128 words
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15. Habitual Residence Rules 33 words
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16. Fuel Costs (Pensioners) 139 words
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17. Official Hospitality 108 words

Lords Sitting of 2 March 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Gulf War: DU Weapons and Toxic Dust 610 words
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3. Immigration Advisers 1,488 words
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4. Western European Union: Purpose and Functions 965 words
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5. Motorcycles: Parking Places 1,172 words
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6. Succession to the Crown Bill [H.L.] 2,075 words
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7. Teaching and Higher Education Bill [H.L.] 40,529 words, 3 divisions
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8. Valuation and Rating (Exempted Classes) (Scotland) Order 1998 663 words
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9. Teaching and Higher Education Bill [H.L.] 25,831 words, 1 division

Written Answers (Lords) of 2 March 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. Bahrain: UK Military Training 99 words
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2. NHS Charges: Increases 281 words
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3. Fluoridation of Water 301 words
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4. M.40: Additional Service Station 90 words
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5. Freight Grants 133 words
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6. Housing Benefit: Figures 162 words
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7. Stakeholder Pensions Scheme: Consultations 131 words
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8. Former Servicemen Living Abroad: State Pensions 176 words
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9. Social Security: Appeals Service 130 words
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10. Ministerial Statements to Parliament 81 words
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11. Strategic Communications Unit 38 words
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12. Campsfield House Centre: Report 48 words
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13. Asylum Applicants: Delays 111 words
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14. Firearms: Compensation Scheme Administration 156 words
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15. Firearms Licensing: Police Administration 280 words
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16. Forestry: Strategy for England 250 words
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17. Fisheries: Controls and Allocations 650 words
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18. EU Fisheries: National Quota System 63 words
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19. Fisheries Surveillance Vessels 107 words
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20. Fisheries: Mesh Sizes 136 words
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21. Demersal Trawls: Discards 212 words
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22. EU Council Regulation 3760/92 61 words
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23. Gulf Veterans: Medical Tests 1,246 words
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24. Royal College of Physicians Audit of Gulf War Medical Assessment Programme 1,887 words
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25. Clinical Assessment Programme 90 words
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26. Specialist Investigations 83 words
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27. Baseline Tests currently carried out on MAP patients 50 words
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28. Depleted Uranium Contamination 1,041 words
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29. Kuwait—Depleted Uranium Contamination 777 words
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30. Uranium-238 412 words
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31. Depleted Uranium 1,425 words
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32. Israel and Iraq 62 words
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33. Armed Forces' Married Quarters 223 words
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34. Historic Buildings Advisory Group 142 words