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Commons Sitting of 22 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

c547
1. Preamble 7 words
2. Orders of the Day
c547
1. WAYS AND MEANS 10 words
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2. AMENDMENT OF THE LAW 122 words
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3. Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation 48,037 words
4. COMMITTEES
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1. FOREIGN AFFAIRS 25 words
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5. TREASURY 25 words
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6. Longlevens Post Office 4,116 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 22 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
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1. Badgers/Bovine TB 1,965 words
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2. Birds 334 words
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3. Pesticides 155 words
2. TRANSPORT
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1. British Transport Police 151 words
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2. Disabled Parking 283 words
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3. Rail Compensation 386 words
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4. Railway Bridges (Salisbury) 94 words
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5. Romford Station 100 words
3. HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION
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1. Fire Safety 625 words
4. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. Eritrea 62 words
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2. Guinea 120 words
5. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Anti-competitive Practices 70 words
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2. BNFL American Assets 90 words
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3. Call Centres 79 words
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4. Defence Knowledge Transfer 190 words
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5. Departmental Communications 260 words
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6. Fair Trade Products 322 words
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7. Miners' Compensation 44 words
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8. Post Office Closures 444 words
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9. Postwatch Scotland 71 words
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10. Regional Development Agencies 536 words
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11. Regulations 280 words
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12. Renewable Energy 285 words
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13. Science/Technology (Promotion) 174 words
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14. Small Businesses 129 words
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15. Vibration White Finger 142 words
6. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Sexual Offences Act 101 words
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2. Identity Cards 86 words
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3. Anti-social Behaviour 104 words
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4. Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 98 words
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5. Street Crime (Castle Point) 35 words
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6. Internet Pornography 80 words
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7. Immigration (Eastern Europe) 128 words
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8. Police (CBRN Training) 91 words
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9. Prisons 57 words
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10. Asylum Seekers 1,246 words
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11. Departmental Communications 427 words
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12. Youth Justice Board 52 words
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13. Departmental Scientific Adviser 182 words
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14. Drinking Water 162 words
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15. Firearms Legislation 291 words
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16. Heroin 66 words
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17. Illegal Immigration 107 words
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18. Internet Fraud 83 words
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19. Management Consultants 475 words
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20. National Offender Management Service 72 words
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21. Police Cells 143 words
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22. Prisoners 122 words
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23. Probation 192 words
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24. Research and Statistics Directorate 628 words
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25. Sentencing Guidelines 176 words
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26. Sex Offences (Peterborough) 133 words
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27. Young Offenders 136 words
7. DEFENCE
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1. Anti-anthrax Vaccines 167 words
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2. Arctic Campaign Veterans 61 words
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3. Armoured Battlegroup Support Vehicle 325 words
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4. Budget Holders 881 words
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5. Civilian Posts 100 words
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6. Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty 177 words
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7. Deepcut Barracks 87 words
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8. Defence Intelligence Services 109 words
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9. Departmental Communications 648 words
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10. Drugs 694 words
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11. Eurofighter Typhoon 52 words
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12. Iraq 1,027 words
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13. Joint Strike Fighter 126 words
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14. Land Command 228 words
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15. Post Office 172 words
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16. Regimental Records 145 words
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17. Heroes Return Scheme 83 words
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18. Unexploded Ordnance 233 words
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19. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 69 words
8. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Conferences 84 words
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2. East Africa 98 words
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3. EU Enlargement 63 words
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4. European Council of Ministers 727 words
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5. Falkland Islands 422 words
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6. Guatemala 206 words
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7. Human Rights 259 words
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8. Iranian Nuclear Programme 112 words
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9. Middle East 157 words
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10. Science Strategy 346 words
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11. Tibet 79 words
9. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Departmental Officials 50 words
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2. Honours 97 words
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3. Hunting with Dogs 51 words
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4. Iraq 247 words
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5. Ministerial Meetings 118 words
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6. Opinion Sampling 84 words
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7. People's Peers 69 words
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8. Press Officers 161 words
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9. Sovereign States (Pre-emptive Action) 342 words
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10. United Nations Charter 132 words
10. CABINET OFFICE
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1. Better Regulation Task Force 114 words
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2. Consultants 139 words
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3. Contingency Planning 160 words
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4. Non-departmental Public Bodies 303 words
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5. Parliamentary Questions 113 words
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6. Recycling 109 words
11. CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
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1. Judges'Instructions 166 words
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2. Supreme Court 102 words
12. WORK AND PENSIONS
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1. Company Pension Schemes 106 words
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2. Disability Living Allowance 55 words
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3. Incapacity Benefit Payments 59 words
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4. Industrial Injuries Report 55 words
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5. Maternity Allowance 27 words
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6. National Insurance Contributions (Women) 102 words
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7. Parkinson's Disease 199 words
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8. Pension Credit 99 words
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9. Pension Service (Telephone Calls) 895 words
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10. Pensions 585 words
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11. Winter Fuel Allowance 198 words
13. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Activity Co-ordination Team 144 words
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2. Broadcasting (Children) 110 words
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3. Departmental Scientific Adviser 88 words
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4. Digital Television 349 words
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5. Film Making 275 words
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6. Libraries 211 words
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7. National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts 495 words
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8. Opinion Samplling 80 words
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9. police Transfers 408 words
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10. Science Strategy 226 words
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11. Running Tracks 64 words
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12. Sport Expenditure 952 words
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13. Sports (Honours) 103 words
14. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Alcohol Addiction 158 words
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2. Antisocial Behaviour 120 words
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3. Cattle Tagging 74 words
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4. Diabetes Services 149 words
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5. Fair Employment Exemptions 266 words
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6. Illiteracy 127 words
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7. IVF Treatment 393 words
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8. Key Stage 3 102 words
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9. Killyleagh Development 56 words
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10. Libraries 211 words
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11. Multiple Sclerosis 181 words
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12. Rail Services 362 words
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13. Civil Servants 130 words
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14. Smacking 145 words
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15. Speed Cameras 915 words
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16. Union Flag 91 words
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17. University of Ulster (Car Clamping) 303 words
15. HEALTH
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1. Allergies 102 words
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2. Bounty 343 words
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3. Care Homes 484 words
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4. Change Agent Team 94 words
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5. Charges Revenue 302 words
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6. Dentistry 359 words
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7. Diabetes 116 words
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8. DXA Scans 191 words
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9. Ebixa 186 words
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10. Epilepsy 100 words
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11. Breast Cancer 1,365 words
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12. Hospitals (Body Disposal Procedures) 168 words
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13. Hormone Replacement Therapy 413 words
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14. Marlow Day Hospital 120 words
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15. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency 71 words
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16. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis 178 words
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17. Older People (Medication) 577 words
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18. Organ Donors 299 words
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19. Prescription Charges 43 words
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20. Incontinence 190 words
16. EDUCATION AND SKILLS
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1. Education Statistics 840 words
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2. Looked-after Children 4,384 words
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3. "Every Child Matters" 214 words
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4. Child Care 195 words
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5. Children (Classifications) 136 words
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6. Children's Services Authority (Lancashire) 310 words
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7. Class Sizes 152 words
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8. Connexions 653 words
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9. Departmental Contracts 266 words
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10. Deprivation 155 words
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11. Drugs Advisers 123 words
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12. Future Schools Initiative 79 words
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13. Teaching Assistants 138 words
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14. Education (Ribble Valley) 1,593 words
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15. Education Funding (Crosby) 760 words
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16. Education/Training (Greater London) 70 words
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17. Environmentally Sustainable Procurement 114 words
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18. GCSE (Kurdish) 124 words
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19. Higher Education 160 words
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20. Kinship Foster Carers 124 words
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21. Learning and Skills Councils 73 words
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22. New Deal for Schools 590 words
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23. Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 58 words
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24. Rewarding and Developing Staff Initiative 225 words
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25. School Catchments 627 words
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26. School Funding (Staffordshire) 54 words
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27. School Meals 886 words
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28. School Sports 405 words
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29. School Uniform Grants 58 words
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30. Science Teaching (Chorley) 179 words
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31. Special Educational Needs 191 words
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32. Special School Teachers 76 words
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33. Teachers/Teaching Assistants (Staffordshire) 301 words
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34. UKeU 381 words
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35. UN Convention (Children's Rights) 353 words
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36. Undergraduates (Greater London) 337 words
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37. Workforce Reform 90 words
17. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
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1. Benefit Fraud 91 words
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2. Local Government 94 words
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3. Civil Servants 96 words
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4. Dee Estuary 62 words
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5. Departmental Staff 69 words
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6. Fire and Rescue Services Bill 349 words
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7. Growth Area Funding 104 words
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8. Housing 80 words
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9. Local Government Finance 1,157 words
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10. New Deal for Communities 544 words
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11. Parliamentary Questions 131 words
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12. Regional Assemblies 273 words
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13. Social Housing (Greater London) 149 words
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14. Sunset Clauses 247 words
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15. Telecommunications Masts 491 words
18. TREASURY
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1. Money Laundering 303 words
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2. Pensioner Population 377 words
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3. Animal Feed 80 words
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4. Birth Defects 916 words
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5. Cancer 324 words
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6. Carers 325 words
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7. Computer Misuse 276 words
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8. Death Certification 216 words
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9. Deaths (Greater London) 587 words
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10. Departmental Advertising 37 words
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11. Drug-related Deaths 495 words
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12. Earnings 1,974 words
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13. Electorate (Lancashire) 1,271 words
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14. Employer Tax Contributions 50 words
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15. Labour Statistics 1,245 words
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16. EU Taxation 103 words
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17. Euro 85 words
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18. Housing Market 77 words
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19. Inland Revenue 95 words
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20. Pet Passports 117 words
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21. Financial Services (VAT) 55 words
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22. National Asset Register 40 words
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23. Orphans Fund 49 words
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24. Pensions 174 words
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25. Personal Debt 72 words
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26. Pre-owned Assets Tax 57 words
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27. Procurement (Outsourcing) 166 words
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28. Residential Property Purchase 193 words
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29. Self-Assessment 226 words
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30. Population Statistics 185 words
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31. Tax Credits 608 words
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32. Working Tax Credit 54 words
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33. Winter Deaths (Liverpool) 938 words

Written Statements (Commons) of 22 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
c41WS
1. Fine Enforcement 141 words
2. ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
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1. Radioactive Waste Management 483 words
3. DEFENCE
cc42-3WS
1. Disturbances (Kosovo) 448 words
4. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
c43WS
1. "Tackling Social Exclusion" 121 words
cc43-5WS
2. Draft Regional Transport Strategy (South-east) 620 words
5. TREASURY
c45WS
1. Finance Bill 78 words
6. HEALTH
cc45-6WS
1. Health Services for Prisoners 589 words

Lords Sitting of 22 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

c457
1. Preamble 25 words
c457
2. Royal Assent 32 words
cc457-9
3. "Flying Scotsman" 928 words
cc459-61
4. Courts Martial 754 words
cc461-4
5. Brazil: Street Children 1,733 words
cc465-7
6. Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy 1,215 words
c467
7. Business 33 words
c468
8. Privileges 54 words
cc468-72
9. Constitutional Reform Bill [H.L.] 2,082 words
c472
10. Air Traffic Emissions Reduction Bill [H.L.] 2 words
cc472-85
11. Energy Bill [H.L.] 6,836 words
cc486-90
12. Kosovo: Deployment of British Forces 2,373 words
cc491-546
13. Energy Bill [H.L.] 27,048 words, 1 division
cc546-59
14. National Health Service Staff 6,581 words
cc559-84
15. Energy Bill [H.L.] 12,161 words, 2 divisions

Grand Committee Report of 22 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

cc197-264GC
1. Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Bill [H.L.] 33,259 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 22 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Ulster-Scots Agency 89 words
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2. Food Safety Promotion Board 156 words
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3. Northern Ireland: Smoking 211 words
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4. Tourism Ireland 228 words
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5. House of Lords Refreshment Department: "Fair Trade" Produce 83 words
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6. Guantanamo Bay: British Detainees 392 words
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7. Guantanamo Bay: Algerian Detainess 45 words
cc76-7WA
8. Afghanistan 210 words
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9. China: Human Rights 310 words
cc77-8WA
10. Hong Kong 231 words
cc78-9WA
11. Oryx Natural Resources 276 words
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12. Entente Cordiale 92 words
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13. Uganda 139 words
cc79-80WA
14. Nepal: Human Rights 222 words
c80WA
15. 103 Battalion REME: Vehicles 96 words
cc80-1WA
16. Dental Services 324 words
cc81-2WA
17. Licensing Act 2003 434 words
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18. Playing Fields 94 words
c82WA
19. School Sport 94 words
cc82-3WA
20. National Stud 105 words
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21. Cricket 105 words
c83WA
22. Sport 133 words
cc83-4WA
23. Food: Country of Origin Labelling 95 words
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24. Renewable Energy 385 words
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25. Defra: Consultants and Professional Advisers 334 words
cc85-6WA
26. Common Agricultural Policy 79 words
c86WA
27. Eurostar 105 words
c86WA
28. Regulations: Cost to Business 85 words

Written Statements (Lords) of 22 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Draft Regional Transport Strategy for the South-East 636 words
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2. Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency: Performance Targets 2004–05 449 words
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3. Health Services for Prisoners 616 words