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Commons Sitting of 25 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 3 words
3. Oral Answers to Questions
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1. TRADE AND INDUSTRY 6 words
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1. Broadband 1,025 words
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2. Doha Trade Round 1,776 words
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3. North Sea Drilling 670 words
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4. Spin-out Companies 873 words
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5. Fair Trade (Belize) 539 words
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6. Renewable Energy 726 words
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7. Wind Turbine Farms 776 words
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8. Coal Industry 414 words
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2. MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITY 7,379 words
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1. Pregnant Women (Discrimination) 987 words
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2. Muslim Women (Working Practices) 274 words
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3. Pay Differentials 340 words
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3. Points of Order 278 words
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4. Employment Relations Bill (Programme) (No. 3) 2,090 words
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5. Defence Policy 34,818 words
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4. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 17 words
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5. SOCIAL SECURITY 26 words
6. PETITION
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1. Flooding 268 words
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7. Economic Situation (Strangford) 3,875 words

Westminster Hall Sitting of 25 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

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1. Preamble 3 words
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2. China 21,661 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 25 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. EDUCATION AND SKILLS
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1. Higher Education Bill 197 words
2. TREASURY
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1. Ouzo 66 words
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2. Bicycles 672 words
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3. Customs (Staffing) 290 words
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4. EU Waste and Fraud 126 words
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5. Public Service Agreement Targets 64 words
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6. Working Tax Credit 68 words
3. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Free Television Licences 148 words
4. MINISTER FOR WOMEN
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1. Criminal Justice System (Women Professionals) 73 words
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2. Alcohol 86 words
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3. Career Opportunities (South-east) 118 words
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4. Equal Opportunities 121 words
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5. Civil Service (Pension Entitlement) 109 words
5. DEFENCE
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1. Afghanistan 96 words
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2. ALARM Missile 39 words
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3. Armed Forces Postings 286 words
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4. Army Personnel (Self-harm) 108 words
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5. Climate Change 68 words
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6. D-Day Commemoration 326 words
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7. Data Protection 93 words
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8. Deepcut and Catterick Barracks 261 words
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9. Defence Logistics Organisation 172 words
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10. Fire Study 2000 357 words
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11. Fisheries Control Agency 62 words
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12. Haes Report 123 words
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13. Interpreters 65 words
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14. Iraq 517 words
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15. Manning Control 116 words
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16. Marine Maddison 239 words
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17. Project Funding 151 words
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18. RAF Brampton and Wyton 101 words
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19. Richard King 155 words
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20. Royal Navy 55 words
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21. Single Entry System 73 words
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22. Type 23 Frigates 49 words
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23. Unexploded Ordnance 78 words
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24. Warships 464 words
6. SCOTLAND
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1. Censuses 166 words
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2. Energy Policy 178 words
7. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Assembly Ombudsman 108 words
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2. Assets Recovery Agency 79 words
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3. Further Education 352 words
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4. International Monitoring Commission 165 words
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5. Mental Health Services 233 words
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6. New Deal 563 words
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7. Pregnancy (Triple Test) 58 words
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8. Serious Organised Crime Agency 87 words
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9. Ulster Scots 94 words
8. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. Small Arms 603 words
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2. CDC and Actis 222 words
9. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Long-service Awards 94 words
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2. National Minimum Wage 270 words
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3. Defective Products (Mandatory Recalls) 50 words
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4. Music Industry 136 words
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5. Small Firms Legislation 86 words
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6. Chemical Industry 81 words
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7. European Union (Balance of Trade) 93 words
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8. Nuclear Power (Emissions) 74 words
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9. West Africa (Export Control) 84 words
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10. Productivity (Yorkshire and the Humber) 114 words
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11. Internet Access 85 words
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12. Alcoholic Beverages 120 words
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13. BNFL 174 words
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14. Conferences and Seminars 90 words
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15. Departmental Expenditure 320 words
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16. Departmental Scientific Adviser 125 words
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17. Drug Treatments in Developing Countries 118 words
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18. E-Auctions 78 words
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19. Employment Rights Booklets 314 words
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20. Entrepreneurship 320 words
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21. Fireworks Act 170 words
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22. Flexiclub 95 words
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23. Internet Service Providers 293 words
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24. Ministerial Visits 58 words
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25. Nirex 65 words
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26. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority 102 words
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27. Oil Reserves 248 words
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28. Phoenix Development Fund 75 words
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29. Renewable Energy 65 words
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30. Rural Post Offices (Scotland) 70 words
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31. Small Businesses 1,382 words
10. TRANSPORT
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1. 10-year Plan 206 words
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2. Bus Services 44 words
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3. Channel Tunnel 133 words
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4. Computer Misuse 130 words
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5. Cycling Proficiency Tests 364 words
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6. Infrastructure Projects 2,580 words
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7. London Transport (Grants) 247 words
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8. M25 179 words
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9. Motorised Scooters/Wheelchairs 395 words
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10. Press Officers 274 words
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11. Rail Services/Stations 230 words
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12. Road Noise 433 words
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13. Speed Cameras 228 words
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14. Secondments 229 words
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15. Strategic Rail Authority 98 words
11. ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
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1. Animal By-Products Regulations 253 words
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2. Badgers 201 words
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3. Bovine TB 4,106 words
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4. Fallen Stock 608 words
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5. Farm Incomes (Buckingham) 189 words
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6. GM Crops 444 words
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7. M. bovis 85 words
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8. Market Towns 1,194 words
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9. Ministerial Travel 50 words
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10. National Farmers Union 50 words
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11. Renewable Energy 277 words
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12. Severely Disadvantaged Areas 99 words
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13. Strategic Plant Breeding 231 words
12. CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
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1. Supreme Court 158 words
13. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Carter Report 90 words
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2. Bichard Inquiry 60 words
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3. Care Homes 154 words
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4. Crime Reporting 162 words
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5. Firearms 43 words
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6. Hertfordshire Police Authority 289 words
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7. Home Detention Curfew Scheme 429 words
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8. Human Embryos 66 words
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9. Internet Pornography (Children) 292 words
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10. Mobile Cells 58 words
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11. Licensing Act 1,056 words
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12. Misuse of Computers Act 1,723 words
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13. Offending Behaviour Courses 935 words
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14. Operation Safeguard 55 words
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15. PACE Convictions 102 words
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16. Prison Cells 180 words
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17. Prison Education 367 words
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18. Prison Officers 373 words
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19. Prisons (Accommodation) 130 words
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20. Prisons (Male Estate) 148 words
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21. Private Security Act 163 words
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22. Probation Service 46 words
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23. Resettlement Programmes 200 words
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24. Secure Training Centres 194 words
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25. Suicide (Websites) 64 words
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26. Winchester/Edmunds Hill Prisons 185 words
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27. Wormwood Scrubs 182 words
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28. Young Offenders 1,680 words
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29. Prison Visiting 180 words
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30. Youth Offending Teams 91 words
14. WORK AND PENSIONS
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1. Association of British Insurers 115 words
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2. Benefits Reforms (Scotland) 550 words
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3. Company Stakeholder Pension Schemes 163 words
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4. Departmental Policies (Hackney) 580 words
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5. Employers' Liability Compulsory Insurance 85 words
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6. EU Accession Countries 115 words
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7. Health and Safety 137 words
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8. Pension Centre Staffing 187 words
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9. Pension Service (IT Facilities) 225 words
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10. Pensions 788 words
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11. Unemployment (Wales) 223 words
15. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Afghanistan 171 words
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2. Climate Change 247 words
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3. Cyprus 186 words
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4. Eritrea/Ethiopia 227 words
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5. EU Budget 75 words
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6. European Court of Human Rights 864 words
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7. Government Hospitality 82 words
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8. Kosovo 620 words
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9. Kurds (Iraq) 316 words
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10. Opinion Sampling 135 words
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11. Pakistan 85 words
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12. Press Officers 131 words
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13. Taiwan 110 words
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14. Weapons of Mass Destruction 110 words
16. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
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1. Department-Funded Programmes 335 words
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2. Departmental Buildings 241 words
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3. Government Publicity 197 words
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4. Housing Bill Consultation 138 words
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5. Housing Management/Maintenance Allowance 548 words
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6. Local Authority Standards Committees 188 words
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7. Local Government Grants 147 words
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8. Local Government Statutory Officers 345 words
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9. Parliamentary Questions 112 words
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10. Regional Policy 70 words
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11. South East England Development Agency 91 words
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12. Tetra 113 words
17. HEALTH
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1. Soya Contamination 112 words
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2. Care Homes 104 words
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3. Weil's Disease 188 words
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4. Ashford (Middlesex) Hospital 228 words
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5. Cancer Research 225 words
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6. Cardiac Care 269 words
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7. Child Obesity 54 words
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8. Chlamydia 77 words
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9. Community Health Councils 71 words
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10. Community Pharmacists 288 words
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11. Complementary Medicines 84 words
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12. Consultant Neurologists 114 words
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13. Consultant Nurses 85 words
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14. Contraceptive Services 313 words
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15. Eye Tests (Crosby) 208 words
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16. General Practitioners 229 words
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17. Genetically Modified Foods 99 words
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18. Getting Ahead of the Game 204 words
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19. Health Development Agency 223 words
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20. Health Funding 50 words
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21. Health Services 920 words
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22. Healthy Living Programmes 72 words
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23. Household Goods (Chemicals) 460 words
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24. Human Embryos 140 words
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25. Lymphoedema 91 words
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26. Malnutrition 503 words
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27. Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency 381 words
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28. Meningitis 112 words
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29. Mercury Healthcare 114 words
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30. Microsoft 142 words
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31. National Programme for IT 255 words
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32. NHS (Charges for Overseas Visitors) Regulations 44 words
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33. NHS Funding (Crosby) 55 words
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34. NHS Recruitment 183 words
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35. NHS Trusts 332 words
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36. Non-consultant Career Grade Doctors (Dermatology) 161 words
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37. Nursing Vacancies (Greater London) 50 words
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38. Paddington Basin Private Finance Initiative 78 words
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39. Pathologists 194 words
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40. Pharmaceutical Packaging 78 words
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41. Prisons (Mental Health) 94 words
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42. Public Health 257 words
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43. Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics (Crosby) 52 words
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44. Science Strategy 395 words
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45. Sexual Health 450 words
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46. Sport 569 words
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47. St. Helens Hospitals 375 words
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48. Telecommunications Masts 217 words
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49. Tuberculosis 1,027 words
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50. Websites 483 words

Written Statements (Commons) of 25 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
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1. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Decontamination 284 words
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2. Fisheries 353 words
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3. Landfill 446 words
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4. Albatrosses and Petrels 389 words
2. HEALTH
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1. Standards Agency 22 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Immigration and Nationality Directorate 1,685 words
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2. Police Constable Gerald Walker 869 words
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3. Money Laundering Reporting System 1,071 words
4. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. Iraq (Reconstruction) 560 words
5. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Liberia 138 words
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2. Zimbabwe 189 words
6. TRANSPORT
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1. Central Railway 280 words

Lords Sitting of 25 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. Hepatitis C 1,140 words
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3. Ofcom 765 words
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4. Police Service of Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein Claims 1,168 words
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5. Africa: Prime Minister's Commission 1,154 words
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6. Business of the House: Tuesday, 30 March and Thursday, 1 April 68 words
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7. Business of the House: Standing Order 41 70 words
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8. Public Audit (Wales) Bill [H.L.] 71 words
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9. National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2004 45 words
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10. Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [H.L.] 21,802 words, 4 divisions
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11. European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill 9,750 words, 1 division
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12. Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill 40,681 words, 5 divisions

Grand Committee Report of 25 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Official Report of the Grand Committee on the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Bill [H.L.] 26,026 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 25 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Law Officers' Advice to Government: Disclosure 473 words
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2. Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Funding 464 words
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3. Belfast Education and Library Board: School Funding Formula 118 words
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4. Government and Judiciary 118 words
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5. Iraq: Legal Advice 72 words
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6. Afghanistan: Prisoners 157 words
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7. Small Arms 238 words
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8. Iraq: Basra Airport 57 words
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9. Literacy 191 words
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10. Parole 203 words
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11. Iraq: Unexploded Ordnance 167 words
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12. Iraq: UK and US Counter-insurgency and Counter-terrorism Training 83 words
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13. Ministry of Defence Police: Aggravated Trespass 117 words
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14. RAF Harrier GR7 Aircraft 50 words
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15. Iraq: Khamisiyah 384 words
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16. Watchkeeper Project 74 words
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17. NHS: Paediatric Services 57 words
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18. Smoking and Women 116 words
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19. MMR Vaccine 38 words
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20. Fatigue and Neurological Disorders 107 words
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21. Disabled People: Local Authority Services 225 words
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22. School Sport 343 words
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23. Child Trust Funds Bill 68 words
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24. Private Finance Initiative 234 words
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25. Sport: Lottery Funding 397 words
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26. Community Amateur Sports Clubs 204 words
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27. Pesticides 108 words
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28. Wild Birds 153 words
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29. Pig Swill 94 words
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30. Common Agricultural Policy: Cross-compliance 71 words

Written Statements (Lords) of 25 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Liberia 139 words
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2. Zimbabwe 187 words
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3. Food Standards Agency: Annual Report and Accounts 2002–03 43 words
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4. Gulf Veterans' Illnesses: Research into Reproductive Health 286 words
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5. Iraq: Reconstruction 581 words