Sitting of 4 March 1998

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Commons Sitting of 4 March 1998 Series 6 Vol. 307

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
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3. Channel Tunnel Rail Link 12,085 words
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4. Benefit Integrity Project 12,175 words
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5. Irish People in Britain 4,232 words
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6. Insulin-dependent Diabetics (Driving Restrictions) 3,529 words
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7. Green-belt Housing (Silsden) 3,590 words
8. Oral Answers to Questions
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1. DUCHY OF LANCASTER 4 words
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2. Freedom of Information 763 words
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3. Better Government White Paper 523 words
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4. Freedom of Information 568 words
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5. EU Presidency 364 words
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6. Data Management 483 words
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7. Reports (Publication) 195 words
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8. Freedom of Information 326 words
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9. Electronic Service Delivery 681 words
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10. EU Presidency 229 words
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11. PRIME MINISTER 5 words
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1. Engagements 3,821 words
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2. Ministerial Visits 257 words
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3. Engagements 490 words
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9. Legal Aid 8,887 words
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10. Welfare of Broiler Chickens 1,201 words
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11. WELFARE OF BROILER CHICKENS 129 words
12. Orders of the Day
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1. Scotland Bill 15 words
13. Clause 81
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1. SCOTTISH REPRESENTATION AT WESTMINSTER 8,225 words
14. Clause 83
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1. CROSS-BORDER PUBLIC BODIES: INITIAL STATUS 22,036 words, 1 division
15. Clause 84
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1. POWER TO ADAPT CROSS-BORDER PUBLIC BODIES 2,600 words
16. Clause 85
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1. POWER TO TRANSFER PROPERTY OF CROSS-BORDER PUBLIC — BODIES 191 words
17. Clause 86
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1. MALADMINISTRATION 4,820 words
18. Clause 89
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1. APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF JUDGES 5,722 words
19. Schedule 6
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1. DEVOLUTION ISSUES 895 words
20. Clause 94
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1. THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE 122 words
21. Clause 99
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1. REGULATION OF TWEED AND ESK FISHERIES 993 words
22. Clause 100
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1. SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION: GENERAL 382 words
23. Clause 101
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1. SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION: PROCEDURE 802 words
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2. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
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3. REFERENDUM (LONDON) 24 words
24. PETITION
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1. Human Rights Bill 315 words
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25. Synthetic Factor VIII (Tayside) 3,715 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 4 March 1998 Series 6 Vol. 307

1. DEFENCE
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1. Official Cars 75 words
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2. Surveys 60 words
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3. Royal Dragoon Guards 127 words
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4. Army (Northern Ireland) 167 words
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5. Deep Waste Repository 113 words
2. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Correspondence 108 words
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2. Social Workers (London Prisons) 59 words
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3. Young Offenders 176 words
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4. Proportional Representation 126 words
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5. Firearms 191 words
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6. Driving Offences 131 words
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7. Asylum Seekers 268 words
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8. Prison Service 130 words
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9. Europol 109 words
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10. Violence (Women) 133 words
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11. Emergency Planning 437 words
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12. Private Prisons 173 words
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13. Family Court Welfare Service 231 words
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14. Employee Travel 253 words
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15. Prison and Probation Service Review 262 words
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16. Road Blocks 309 words
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17. Jason Marcus Sebastian 200 words
3. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Official Entertainment 71 words
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2. High Commissions (Sports Facilities) 243 words
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3. European Council (Tapes) 49 words
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4. EU Information Projects (Funding) 102 words
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5. EU Business 50 words
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6. Bosnia and Herzegovina 254 words
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7. Green Transport Co-ordinator 81 words
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8. Car Parking 101 words
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9. Gas Imports 56 words
4. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Company Law 290 words
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2. Employment Agencies 78 words
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3. Dounreay 110 words
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4. Duty Free 128 words
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5. Correspondence 94 words
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6. Assisted Area Status 128 words
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7. Sulphur Protocol 68 words
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8. Coal Purchases 69 words
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9. Inward Investment 145 words
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10. Exports (Indonesia) 72 words
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11. Technology Transfer 161 words
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12. French Lorry Blockades (Compensation) 156 words
5. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Parliamentary Estate 129 words
6. ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
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1. Ministerial Meetings 90 words
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2. House Building 118 words
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3. Green-field Sites 164 words
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4. Leaseholders 198 words
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5. Bathing Water 119 words
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6. Public Interest Reports 165 words
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7. Listed Buildings 108 words
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8. Coastguard Stations 3,270 words
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9. Surveys 136 words
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10. Social Services 76 words
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11. Hedgerows 103 words
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12. British Rail Land 139 words
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13. Set-aside Land 101 words
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14. Grouse Moorlands 153 words
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15. Sites of Special Scientific Interest 312 words
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16. Rainham Marshes 91 words
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17. Climate Change 120 words
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18. Sludge 80 words
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19. Coal Industry 93 words
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20. Local Government Finance 148 words
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21. Private Hire Vehicles 101 words
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22. Telecommunications Masts 662 words
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23. Air Traffic Control 71 words
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24. New Forest 140 words
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25. Parish Councils 93 words
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26. Building Regulations 256 words
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27. Politically Restricted Posts 119 words
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28. St. Piran's Day 38 words
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29. Empty Housing (Nottinghamshire) 602 words
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30. Empty Housing 529 words
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31. Opencast Coal 156 words
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32. Water Pollution 106 words
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33. Nuclear Waste 166 words
7. SCOTLAND
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1. Local Government Elections 122 words
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2. Funicular Railway, Cairngorm 61 words
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3. Empty Properties 326 words
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4. Planning Applications 147 words
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5. Out-of-town Shopping and Leisure Centres 159 words
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6. Local Curfew Schemes 70 words
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7. Throat Cancer 153 words
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8. Health Service Funds 1,021 words
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9. Orthoptists 46 words
8. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Millennium Experience (Donations) 74 words
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2. Honours System 97 words
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3. Cross-party Committee on Europe 63 words
9. TREASURY
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1. Conferences 267 words
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2. Loan Agreements (Africa) 290 words
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3. European Court of Auditors Report 75 words
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4. Surveys 74 words
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5. Central Banks (Employees) 209 words
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6. Euro 122 words
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7. Office Furniture 75 words
10. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Theft and Fraud 425 words
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2. Policing Principles 78 words
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3. RUC Accommodation (Coleraine) 77 words
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4. Police Authority 644 words
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5. David Adams 243 words
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6. Processions (Belfast) 183 words
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7. RUC Divisional Headquarters, Coleraine 72 words
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8. Scheduled Offences 53 words
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9. Police Station, Coleraine 85 words
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10. Social Fund 408 words
11. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Digital Broadcasting 165 words
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2. Rugby Union International 107 words
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3. Concessionary Television Licences 87 words
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4. Car Parking 87 words
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5. Countryside March 147 words
12. PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
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1. Millennium Compliance 35 words
13. WALES
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1. Local Government Finance 846 words
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2. Overseas Travel 64 words
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3. "Putting Patients First" 88 words
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4. NHS Consultants 112 words
14. HEALTH
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1. Wheelchairs 231 words
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2. Mental Health Act 57 words
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3. Contraceptive Pills 45 words
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4. Midwives 271 words
15. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
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1. Class Sizes 368 words
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2. Sex Education 83 words
16. LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
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1. Court Cases (Press Activity) 188 words
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2. Lord Chancellor's Residence 259 words
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3. Judicial Appointments Commission 203 words
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4. Law Terms 67 words
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5. Written Judgments 58 words
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6. Judges 192 words
17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Overseas Visits 214 words
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2. Surveys 170 words
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3. Woodlands 95 words
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4. Food Standards Agency 238 words
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5. Countryside March 115 words
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6. Engagements 109 words
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7. Rural Development (Uplands) 164 words
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8. Herbal Medicines 66 words
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9. Employee Travel 350 words
18. SOCIAL SECURITY
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1. Sustainable Development 71 words
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2. War Pensions 572 words
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3. Benefit Integrity Project 273 words
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4. Incapacity Benefit 127 words
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5. Personal Pensions 109 words
19. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
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1. Public Information Films 80 words
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2. Open Government 180 words
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3. Freedom of Information 649 words
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4. Public Appointments 83 words
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5. Information Technology 302 words
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6. Citizens Charter 73 words
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7. Civil Servants 100 words
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8. Millennium Compliance 67 words
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9. Non-departmental Public Bodies 100 words
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10. Next Steps Agencies 78 words
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11. Magistrates 115 words
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12. Data Protection 62 words
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13. Deregulation 245 words
20. MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO
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1. Millennium Experience 59 words

Lords Sitting of 4 March 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Scottish School Leavers: Basic Skills 1,175 words
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3. Opencast Coal Mining 982 words
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4. Power Stations: Energy Sources Review 959 words
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5. House of Lords: Reform 1,225 words
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6. Legal Aid 6,586 words
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7. Business of the House: Debate this Day 58 words
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8. Charities 36,595 words
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9. Millennium Celebrations 5,204 words

Grand Committee Report of 4 March 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Bank of England Bill 35,913 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 4 March 1998 Series 5 Vol. 586

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1. Cookham Wood: Young Offender Educational Programme 153 words
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2. Phyllis Bowman v. The United Kingdom 215 words
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3. Bahrain Citizens: Asylum Applications 169 words
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4. Bills for Consideration in Grand Committee 116 words
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5. Vacant Dwellings 534 words
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6. Aquatic Environment: Dangerous Substances 96 words
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7. Pyrethroid Sheep Dips 117 words
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8. Company Law: Reform 289 words
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9. Scottish Civil Service Jobs: Dispersed Locations 82 words
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10. "Learning Age" Policy Documents: Press Launch Costs 94 words
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11. Action for Governors' Information and Training (AGIT) 215 words
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12. Government Department Public Presentations 37 words
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13. Grace and Favour Residences 41 words
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14. Government Art Collection: Public Access 166 words
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15. Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines: Storage 105 words
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16. GP Partnerships: Deprivation Payment Statistics 773 words