Sitting of 15 March 2004

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Commons Sitting of 15 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 28 words
3. Orders of the Day
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4. CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 2) BILL 56 words
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5. Fire and Rescue Services Bill 6 words
6. New Clause 1
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7. FIRE AND RESCUE NATIONAL FRAMEWORK—SCRUTINY 12,700 words, 1 division
8. New Clause 2
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9. RETAINED FIREFIGHTERS 7,716 words
10. New Clause 4
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11. LIMITATION ON POWER TO AUTHORISE CHARGING 9,675 words, 1 division
12. New Clause 5
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13. REGIONAL MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES 15,226 words, 1 division
14. New Clause 7
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15. DIRECTIONS RELATING TO PARTICULAR CLASSES OF FIRES AND EMERGENCIES 2,674 words, 1 division
16. Clause 2
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1. POWER TO CREATE COMBINED FIRE AND RESCUE AUTHORITIES 205 words
17. Clause 4
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1. COMBINED AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FIRE SERVICES ACT 1947 181 words
18. Clause 19
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1. CHARGING 6,811 words
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19. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE 72 words
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20. NORTHERN IRELAND AFFAIRS 27 words
21. PETITION
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22. Muscular Dystrophy (Research Funding) 227 words
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23. MMR Vaccinations and Autism 4,245 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 15 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
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1. Community Transport Fund (Essex) 381 words
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2. Unsurfaced Roads 509 words
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3. Batteries 287 words
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4. GM Crops 363 words
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5. Nappies 93 words
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6. Non-departmental Public Bodies 424 words
2. SOLICIITOR-GENERAL
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1. Anti-Social Behaviour Orders 75 words
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2. Law Officers' Advice 159 words
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3. Discontinued Prosecutions 1,710 words
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4. Katharine Gun 49 words
3. WALES
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1. Business Output 86 words
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2. Ministerial Speeches 121 words
4. TRANSPORT
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1. Computerised MOT Tests 332 words
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2. Rural Bus Services (Chorley) 78 words
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3. Goods Vehicles 195 words
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4. Rail Capacity (West Yorkshire) 152 words
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5. Road Safety 1,515 words
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6. School Buses 132 words
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7. Severn Bridge 657 words
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8. Speed Cameras 351 words
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9. Waterways Improvements 65 words
5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. Civil Society Organisations 72 words
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2. Conferences 72 words
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3. Departmental Communications 222 words
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4. EU Development Finance 2,503 words
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5. Haiti 162 words
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6. Iraq 173 words
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7. Middle East 2,382 words
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8. Nile Conference 213 words
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9. Procurement Policy 57 words
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10. Rwanda 667 words
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11. Uganda 250 words
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12. Westminster Hall 54 words
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13. Zimbabwe 924 words
6. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. School Meals 180 words
7. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Law Officers' Advice Advice 68 words
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2. Departmental Staff 114 words
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3. Agricultural Subsidies 126 words
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4. Global Security 230 words
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5. Middle East 66 words
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6. Welsh Assembly 131 words
8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Conferences 217 words
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2. Israel 126 words
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3. Cote d'Ivoire 133 words
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4. Caribbean 174 words
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5. United Nations 128 words
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6. Zimbabwe 503 words
9. CABINET OFFICE
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1. Asbestos 157 words
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2. Official Publications 91 words
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3. Public Service (Disqualification) 187 words
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4. Regulatory Impact Assessments 177 words
10. DEFENCE
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1. Airfield Support Services Project 117 words
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2. Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 126 words
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3. Arms Dealers 102 words
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4. Asbestos 224 words
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5. Continuous Attitudes Survey 453 words
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6. Defence Bills Agency 175 words
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7. Defence-related Industries 139 words
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8. Eurofighter Typhoon 98 words
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9. Gibraltar 107 words
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10. Iraq 546 words
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11. Met Office 105 words
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12. RAF St. Athan 105 words
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13. Regimental Artefacts 140 words
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14. Territorial Army 72 words
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15. Warships 372 words
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16. Wind Farms 209 words
11. CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
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1. Census Returns 77 words
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2. Departmental Communications 285 words
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3. court Buildings (Disabled Access) 644 words
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4. Parliamentary Questions 120 words
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5. Westminster Hall 56 words
12. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Television Licence Fees 301 words
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2. Cultural Programmes 147 words
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3. Edgworth Cricket and Recreation Club 90 words
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4. Entertainment Costs 80 words
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5. Libraries (Digitisation) 90 words
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6. New Opportunities Fund (Buckingham) 102 words
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7. Project Funding 232 words
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8. Television Ownership 94 words
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9. Tourism (Regional Development Agencies) 155 words
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10. Weymouth Transmitter 142 words
13. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
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1. Casinos 69 words
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2. Child Poverty 83 words
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3. Civil Servants 65 words
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4. Care Homes (Gloucestershire) 267 words
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5. Housing (Buckingham) 98 words
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6. Quality Parish and Town Council Scheme 115 words
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7. Radon Tests 435 words
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8. Regional Assemblies 577 words
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9. Local Councillors (Anonymous Complaints) 89 words
14. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Working Time Directive 343 words
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2. Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings 84 words
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3. Employment Rights Advice 101 words
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4. Renewable Energy Initiative 93 words
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5. EU Structural Funds 1,622 words
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6. Israel 125 words
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7. Manufacturing 913 words
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8. Employment 72 words
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9. Mark Gilbert Morse Solicitors 49 words
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10. Maternity Leave 144 words
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11. Miners'Compensation 258 words
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12. Nuclear Industry 315 words
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13. Skills Base 477 words
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14. Small Business 266 words
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15. EU Telecoms Council 302 words
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16. Ukraine 157 words
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17. Unfair Dismissal Compensation 72 words
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18. Welsh Manufacturing Exports 104 words
15. EDUCATION AND SKILLS
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1. Behavioural Problems 166 words
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2. Best Practice Research Scholarships 119 words
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3. Chesterfield High School, Sefton 679 words
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4. Computers within Reach Programme 182 words
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5. Connexions 1,857 words
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6. Education Funding 527 words
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7. Opportunity Bursaries 59 words
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8. Education Standards 593 words
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9. Educational Databases 177 words
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10. Homeless Young People 371 words
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11. Special Educational Needs 513 words
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12. Pre-school Education 115 words
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13. School Sports 218 words
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14. Specialist Sports Colleges (Out-of-hours Provision) 183 words
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15. Streaming 81 words
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16. Student Loans 189 words
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17. Teachers (Crosby) 416 words
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18. University Title 60 words
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19. Voluntary Sector Funding 180 words
16. WORK AND PENSIONS
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1. Savings Ratio 97 words
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2. Pensioner Benefits 452 words
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3. Carers Allowance 189 words
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4. Child Support Agency 64 words
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5. Parliamentary Questions 41 words
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6. Departmental Website 51 words
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7. Employment Development Fund 152 words
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8. Health and Safety 75 words
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9. Maintenance (Non-Resident Parents) 103 words
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10. Pension Protection Fund 354 words
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11. Remploy 225 words
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12. Small Business Support 215 words
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13. Pensions Uprating (European Union Residents) 71 words
17. TREASURY
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1. Birth Defects 335 words
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2. Charities 355 words
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3. Child Tax Credit 114 words
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4. Economic Statistics 970 words
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5. Family Gifts (Taxation) 117 words
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6. Employment (Crosby) 385 words
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7. EU Budget 462 words
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8. Customs and Excise 530 words
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9. Iraq 40 words
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10. Project Funding 174 words
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11. Business Regulation 90 words
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12. Small Business 528 words
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13. Sugar Tax 116 words
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14. Suicides 132 words
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15. Tax Credits 102 words
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16. Unemployment (Crosby) 210 words
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17. VAT 496 words
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18. Welsh Industries 39 words
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19. Windfall Profits (Banks) 52 words
18. HEALTH
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1. Alcohol Advertising 153 words
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2. Allergies 36 words
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3. Amantadine 163 words
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4. Continence Services 291 words
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5. NHS Dentists 477 words
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6. Breast Feeding 89 words
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7. Cosmetic Surgery 335 words
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8. Epilepsy 278 words
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9. EU Enlargement 565 words
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10. General Practitioners (Greater London) 447 words
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11. Child Protection 125 words
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12. Intermediate Care 66 words
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13. Nursing Care 73 words
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14. Information Technology 901 words
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15. People with Learning Disabilities 371 words
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16. NHS Trusts 185 words
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17. Hormone Replacement Therapy 122 words
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18. Organ Donation 308 words
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19. Orthopaedic Surgery (Greater London) 224 words
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20. Osteoporosis 288 words
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21. Waiting Lists/Times 562 words
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22. Working Time Directive 186 words
19. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Sentencing 142 words
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2. Asylum and Immigration 511 words
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3. Bail(Offences) 111 words
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4. Coroners 42 words
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5. Correspondence 151 words
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6. Prosecutions(Romford/Havering) 206 words
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7. Deaths in Custody 251 words
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8. Detention and Removal Centres 324 words
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9. Disorder Penalty Notices 82 words
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10. DNA Testing 332 words
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11. Drug Rehabilitation Schemes (Portsmouth) 113 words
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12. Drug Treatment and Testing Orders 116 words
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13. Eastern European Arrivals 230 words
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14. Electronic Tagging 111 words
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15. Court Escort Contractors 72 words
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16. EU Enlargement(Worker Registration) 181 words
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17. Extraditions(Russia) 108 words
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18. Female Prisoners 361 words
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19. Holocaust Memorial Day 523 words
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20. Home Detention Curfew Scheme 417 words
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21. Identity Cards 2,619 words
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22. Internet 77 words
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23. Jim Stephens 72 words
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24. Neighbourhood Watch Schemes 211 words
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25. Prisoners (Accommodation on Release) 383 words
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26. National Offender Management Service 98 words
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27. Operation Safeguard 93 words
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28. Persistent Offenders 308 words
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29. Police Cells 89 words
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30. Prison Buildings 117 words
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31. Prisoner Discharge Grants 157 words
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32. Prisoner Statistics 1,055 words
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33. Probation Cases 138 words
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34. Re-offending 65 words
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35. Restorative Justice 315 words
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36. Robert Dymond 102 words
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37. Sentencing Guidelines Council 130 words
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38. Shaw Inquiry Reports 73 words
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39. Supervision and Monitoring Schemes 150 words
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40. Travellers(Photographic Images) 354 words
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41. Westminster Hall 51 words
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42. Young Offenders 718 words

Written Statements (Commons) of 15 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy 131 words
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2. Disorder Penalty Notices 199 words
2. TREASURY
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1. Public Sector Relocation 23 words
3. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. National Minimum Wage 704 words
4. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
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1. Sustainable Communities 3,040 words
5. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Supplementary Estimates 344 words

Lords Sitting of 15 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Biological Weapons: US Sales to Iraq 905 words
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3. Supreme Court 1,549 words
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4. Sustainable Communities Plan 1,364 words
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5. Northern Ireland: Paramilitary Ceasefires 937 words
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6. Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [H.L.] 14,343 words
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7. Protection from Harassment (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1180 (N.I. 9)) 59 words
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8. Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43) 68 words
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9. Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) 82 words
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10. Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) 1,786 words
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11. Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Bill 23 words
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12. Human Rights Act 1998 (Making of Remedial Orders) Amendment Bill [H.L.] 1,989 words
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13. Business 72 words
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14. Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill 38,865 words

Grand Committee Report of 15 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

1. Official Report of the Grand Committee on the
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1. National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill 5,544 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 15 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Belfast Agreement 145 words
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2. Northern Ireland Electoral Office 858 words
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3. Abu Hamza 60 words
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4. Sudan: Darfur 125 words
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5. Guantanamo Bay: British Detainees 173 words
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6. British Overseas Territories 51 words
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7. North Korea: Human Rights 941 words
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8. China: North Korean Refugees 510 words
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9. Zimbabwe 252 words
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10. Prisoners 280 words
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11. Victims Advisory Panel 188 words
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12. Chechnya: Asylum Applications 145 words
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13. Police Service: Staff Support Associations 138 words
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14. Computer Misuse Act 1990 172 words
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15. Speeding 52 words
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16. Criminal Offences 91 words
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17. Police Vehicles: Road Accidents 2,531 words
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18. Internet Child Pornography 325 words
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19. Football Hooligans 444 words
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20. e-Crime Strategy 81 words
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21. Anthrax 241 words
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22. Obesity 98 words
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23. NHS: Falls Services for the Elderly 247 words
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24. Healthcare Professionals: EU Accession States 229 words
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25. Clinical Trials 147 words
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26. Ministry of Defence: Right to Roam 162 words
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27. Support Vehicle Project 99 words
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28. Law Officers: Advice to Ministers 130 words
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29. Sports Clubs 396 words
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30. Winter Olympics 284 words
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31. Space for Sport and the Arts 87 words
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32. Sport: Lottery Expenditure 281 words
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33. Coin-operated Telephone Boxes 86 words
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34. Single Farm Payment Scheme 60 words
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35. Common Agricultural Policy and Digital Mapping 468 words
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36. Imidacloprid and Bees 223 words
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37. A34 279 words

Written Statements (Lords) of 15 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Northern Ireland: Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Science Service 259 words
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2. Penalty Notices for Disorder 200 words
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3. Growth Areas 3,062 words
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4. Doctors and Dentists Remuneration 253 words
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5. Mortgage Market 49 words
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6. Low Pay Commission 735 words