Sitting of 29 March 2004

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Commons Sitting of 29 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 4 words
3. Orders of the Day
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1. European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill 5 words
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1. Clause 1 10,139 words, 1 division
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4. Employment Relations Bill 7 words
1. New Clause 4
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1. DISAPPLICATION OF QUALIFYING PERIOD AND UPPER AGE LIMIT FOR UNFAIR DISMISSAL 1,792 words
2. New Clause 5
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1. ADDITIONAL DUTIES ON EMPLOYERS INFORMED OF BALLOTS 10,628 words
3. New Clause 6
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1. UNFAIR PRACTICES IN RELATION TO RECOGNITION BALLOTS 670 words
4. New Clause 7
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1. UNFAIR PRACTICES IN RELATION TO DERECOGNITION BALLOTS 631 words
5. New Clause 8
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1. UNFAIR PRACTICES: POWER TO MAKE PROVISION ABOUT PERIODS BEFORE NOTICE OF BALLOT 261 words
6. New Clause 1
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1. DIGNITY AT WORK 1,923 words
7. New Clause 2
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1. INTIMIDATION 1,840 words, 1 division
8. New Clause 3
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1. APPEALS 1,130 words
9. New Clause 9
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1. RIGHT TO STRIKE 4,203 words
10. New Clause 10
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1. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 1,782 words
11. New Clause 14
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1. EFFECT OF CONTINUATION OF CONTRACT ORDER ON TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS 716 words
12. New Clause 16
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1. EXCLUSION OR EXPULSION FROM TRADE UNION 818 words
13. New Clause 18
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1. PROTECTION OF JOURNALISTS 631 words
14. Clause 5
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1. UNION COMMUNICATIONS WITH WORKERS AFTER ACCEPTANCE OF APPLICATION 28 words
15. Clause 11
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1. POWER TO AMEND SCHEDULE Al TO THE 1992 ACT 25 words
16. Clause 24
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1. INDUCEMENTS RELATING TO UNION MEMBERSHIP OR ACTIVITIES 1,206 words
17. Clause 34
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1. INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION: GREAT BRITAIN 11,345 words, 1 division
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18. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 32 words
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19. NORTHERN IRELAND 22 words
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20. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 26 words
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21. EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS 15 words
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22. REVIEW OF THE WORKING TIME DIRECTIVE 68 words
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23. DELEGATED LEGISLATION 24 words
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24. Census 1911 3,975 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 29 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. LEADER OF THE HOUSE
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1. Departmental Buildings 89 words
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2. Temporary Staff 153 words
2. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
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1. Broadband 280 words
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2. Computer Misuse 116 words
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3. House Sharers 86 words
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4. Regional Funding 416 words
3. DEFENCE
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1. Sea Cadet Corps 112 words
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2. Secondments 152 words
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3. Defence Industrial Policy 55 words
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4. Aircraft Carriers 76 words
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5. Territorial Army 65 words
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6. Departmental Officials 177 words
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7. Deployments (Germany) 51 words
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8. Iraq 252 words
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9. Kilve Bend Range 78 words
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10. Kuwait 52 words
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11. Osama Bin Laden 92 words
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12. RAF Stafford 71 words
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13. Sanctuary Magazine 115 words
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14. War Disablement Pensioners 86 words
4. PRIME MINISTER
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1. Cabinet Committee on Relocation 53 words
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2. Employment Agencies 85 words
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3. Liberation of Rome (1944) 145 words
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4. Libya 63 words
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5. Party Use of Government Buildings 69 words
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6. Register of Interests 50 words
5. SOLICITOR-GENERAL
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1. Iraq 62 words
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2. Overseas Bribery 194 words
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3. Parliamentary Questions 56 words
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4. Youth Matters 43 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. China 398 words
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2. Correspondence 53 words
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3. Elections (International Observers) 209 words
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4. Embassy and High Commission Land 222 words
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5. Iran 56 words
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6. Iraq 192 words
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7. Israel 52 words
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8. Press Releases 70 words
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9. Canada 83 words
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10. Sri Lanka 228 words
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11. Sudan 371 words
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12. Travel Guidance 129 words
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13. Australia 104 words
7. CABINET OFFICE
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1. Departmental Officials 143 words
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2. DirectGov 211 words
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3. Official Data 234 words
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4. Secondments 351 words
8. CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
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1. Double Decker Buses (Tourism) 119 words
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2. Employment Agencies 214 words
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3. Green Spaces Funding 131 words
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4. Public Libraries 169 words
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5. National Lottery 223 words
9. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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1. EU Development Assistance 196 words
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2. Iraq 241 words
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3. Palestine 306 words
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4. British Overseas Territories 199 words
10. TRANSPORT
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1. Bicycle Helmets 338 words
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2. East London Line 77 words
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3. Employment Agencies 165 words
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4. EU Freight Facilities Grants 245 words
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5. Hazardous Substances (Carriage at Sea) 284 words
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6. Heavy Goods/Public Service Vehicles 589 words
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7. Level Crossings (Pollution) 113 words
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8. Maritime Security 161 words
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9. Merchant Fleet 158 words
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10. Piracy 474 words
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11. Queen Elizabeth Bridge, Dartford 158 words
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12. Rail Services 144 words
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13. Ships and Containers (Scanning) 206 words
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14. Speed Cameras 947 words
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15. Road Accidents 57 words
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16. Telecommunications Masts 162 words
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17. Tachograph Offences 164 words
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18. Vehicle Inspectorate 186 words
11. CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
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1. Community Legal Service 227 words
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2. Computer Misuse 141 words
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3. Departmental Officials 46 words
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4. Emergency Protection Orders 349 words
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5. Legal Services Review 264 words
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6. Lord Chancellor 166 words
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7. Munby Judgment, November 2001 121 words
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8. Secondments 165 words
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9. Wrongful Convictions 215 words
12. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Cancer 351 words
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2. Census 2001 192 words
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3. Computer Misuse 115 words
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4. Invest Northern Ireland 69 words
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5. Police Recruitment 153 words
13. EDUCATION AND SKILLS
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1. Asylum-seeking Children 115 words
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2. Careers Service 182 words
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3. Child Care 2,377 words
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4. Child Poverty 83 words
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5. Connexions 305 words
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6. Contact Centres 186 words
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7. E-universities 562 words
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8. Early Years Development 595 words
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9. Further Education Colleges 186 words
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10. Education Funding 268 words
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11. Kids Club Network (Funding) 177 words
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12. Local Government Finance 115 words
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13. Mature Students 343 words
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14. National Childcare Strategy (Burton) 133 words
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15. Pre-school Education (Crosby) 306 words
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16. School Playing Fields 193 words
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17. Science Strategy 174 words
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18. Special Educational Needs 1,426 words
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19. Student Loans 218 words
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20. Sure Start 410 words
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21. Telephone Tapping 43 words
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22. Universities (Work Experience) 205 words
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23. University Science Departments 162 words
14. ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS
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1. Coastal Defence 186 words
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2. Conferences/Seminars 132 words
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3. Disposable Nappies 412 words
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4. Drinking Water Quality 311 words
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5. Emissions Trading 1,338 words
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6. Home Energy Efficiency Scheme 64 words
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7. Ivory 97 words
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8. Fly-tipping 81 words
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9. Gamma interferon Test 143 words
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10. Large Combustion Plants Directive 407 words
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11. Marine Conservation 97 words
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12. Parish/Town Councils 487 words
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13. Public Carriage Roads 169 words
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14. Radioactive Waste 246 words
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15. Recycling 1,306 words
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16. Science Strategy 367 words
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17. Sugar Regime 69 words
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18. Trophy Hunting 88 words
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19. Warm Front (Cleethorpes) 56 words
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20. Waste Management 1,560 words
15. HEALTH
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1. "Delivering Race Equality" 53 words
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2. Biomedicine 80 words
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3. Breast Screening 177 words
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4. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 111 words
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5. Cluster Headaches 100 words
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6. Computer Misuse 210 words
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7. Correspondence 80 words
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8. Dentistry 1,128 words
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9. Diabetes 297 words
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10. Health Spending (West Derbyshire) 100 words
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11. Integrated Community Equipment Service Team 54 words
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12. Maternity Services (Asylum Seekers) 61 words
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13. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency 85 words
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14. Mental Health Services 184 words
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15. Nappies 36 words
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16. NHS (South Tyneside) 654 words
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17. NHS Staff 97 words
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18. NHS Beds (Crosby) 842 words
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19. North Bristol NHS Trust 231 words
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20. Ophthalmology 159 words
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21. PET Scanners 45 words
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22. Prescription Drugs 116 words
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23. Respiratory Conditions 112 words
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24. Seroxat 103 words
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25. St. Jude Silzone Heart Valve 325 words
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26. Substance Misuse 108 words
16. TREASURY
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1. National Statistics 1,437 words
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2. United States Container Security Initiative 68 words
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3. Aggregates Tax 48 words
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4. Bureaux de Change 173 words
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5. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning 457 words
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6. Champagne Imports 98 words
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7. Child Tax Credits 70 words
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8. Customs and Excise 86 words
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9. Demographics 75 words
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10. Departmental Buildings/Officials 329 words
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11. Economic Statistics (Burton) 366 words
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12. Employment Agency Staff 143 words
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13. Focus Groups and Opinion Polls 59 words
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14. Individual Savings Accounts 117 words
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15. Insurance Premium Tax 66 words
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16. National Trust 103 words
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17. Pensions (Equitable Life) 112 words
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18. Stamp Duty 141 words
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19. Tax Collection 112 words
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20. Unclaimed Assets 432 words
17. WORK AND PENSIONS
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1. Benefit Payments (Scotland) 445 words
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2. Benefits 306 words
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3. Benefits Reforms (Scotland) 370 words
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4. Child Support Agency 230 words
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5. Child Tax Credit 96 words
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6. Company Cars (Child Support) 136 words
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7. Departmental Communications 276 words
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8. Departmental Ethnic Minority Employment 59 words
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9. EU Accession States 402 words
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10. Local Government Finance 1,022 words
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11. Habitual Residence Test 101 words
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12. Health and Safety at Work 195 words
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13. Incapacity Benefit 314 words
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14. Jobcentre Plus 117 words
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15. Jobcentre Plus 346 words
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16. Partnerships Against Poverty 732 words
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17. Pension Credit 162 words
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18. Poverty Threshold 89 words
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19. Sure Start Maternity Grant 74 words
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20. Underoccupation 131 words
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21. Websites 633 words
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22. Winter Fuel Payment 957 words
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23. Working at Height Regulations 328 words
18. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
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1. Mortgages 169 words
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2. Balance of Funding Review 275 words
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3. Car Parking 133 words
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4. Correspondence 47 words
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5. Council Houses 114 words
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6. Department-Sponsored Bodies 137 words
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7. Hereford and Worcester Fire Authority 218 words
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8. Homeless People 124 words
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9. House Buyers (Protection) 166 words
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10. Housing 2,882 words
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11. Local Government Finance 312 words
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12. Local Government Grants 229 words
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13. Local Government Pension Scheme 204 words
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14. Mobile Phone Masts 182 words
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15. New Deal for Communities 529 words
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16. Regional Assemblies 50 words
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17. Public Bodies (Expenditure) 526 words
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18. Shell Haven Port 140 words
19. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Coroners' Inquiries 183 words
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2. Drugs 131 words
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3. Escort Contractors 140 words
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4. Firearms 1,897 words
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5. Forensic Science 72 words
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6. Information Technology 98 words
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7. Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme 46 words
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8. Juvenile Crime 47 words
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9. Prisons 1,052 words
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10. Probation 1,519 words
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11. Rape 529 words
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12. Sentencing Statistics 1,451 words
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13. Truancy Parental Imprisonment 95 words
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14. Wormwood Scrubs 166 words
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15. Young Offenders 2,496 words

Written Statements (Commons) of 29 March 2004 Series 6 Vol. 419

1. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
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1. Green Belt Statistics 237 words
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2. High Hedges 205 words
2. TREASURY
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1. Civil Registration Review 275 words
3. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Government Co-operation Faith Communities 139 words
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2. Special Branch 137 words
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3. Passport Service 29 words
4. DEFENCE
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1. Bowman 528 words
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2. Nuclear Weapons (Safety Arrangements) 164 words
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3. Regional Prime Contract (South-West) 141 words
5. WORK AND PENSIONS
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1. Debt Management 480 words
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2. Business Plans 659 words
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3. Social Fund 493 words
6. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. Falklands Islands 175 words

Lords Sitting of 29 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. National Service Framework for Children 1,215 words
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3. Regulatory Impact Assessments 1,085 words
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4. Bovine Tuberculosis 1,053 words
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5. Draft European Constitution 1,080 words
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6. Business 73 words
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7. Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill 102 words
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8. Air Traffic Emissions Reduction Bill [H.L.] 15 words
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9. Energy Bill [H.L.] 10,637 words, 1 division
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10. European Council and Libya 6,399 words
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11. Serious and Organised Crime 6,810 words
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12. Energy Bill [H.L.] 13,189 words, 1 division
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13. Zimbabwe 9,451 words
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14. Energy Bill [H.L.] 21,150 words
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15. University of Manchester Bill [H.L.] 28 words
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16. European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill 36 words

Grand Committee Report of 29 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.] 29,681 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 29 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Ulster-Scots Agency: Budget 2004 78 words
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2. Dependent Territories: Human Rights 329 words
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3. Russian Election 207 words
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4. Krishna Maharaj 265 words
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5. Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001: Privy Counsellor Review Committee Report 744 words
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6. Police Officers 824 words
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7. Home Office: Spending on Alcohol-related Programmes 272 words
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8. Anabolic Steroids: Possession and Supply Offence Statistics 299 words
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9. Asylum Appeals against Fast-tracking 211 words
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10. Apprenticeships 214 words
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11. Common Agricultural Policy 141 words
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12. Information Technology Projects: Government Procurement 137 words
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13. Smoking: Labelling and Warnings 119 words
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14. Agrochemicals: Human Exposure Testing and Risk Assessments 289 words
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15. Physical Activity: Pilot Schemes 228 words
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16. Haemophilia Patients: Macfarlane Trust Payments 277 words
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17. Sports Programmes: Department of Health 373 words
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18. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 322 words
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19. Thiomersal 54 words
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20. Simvastatin 380 words
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21. Abortion 110 words
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22. Obesity 140 words
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23. Mink 196 words
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24. Swill 189 words

Written Statements (Lords) of 29 March 2004 Series 5 Vol. 659

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1. Falkland Islands: "Almirante Irizar" 192 words
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2. Nuclear Weapons: Safety 181 words
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3. Ministry of Defence: Regional Prime Contract South-West 162 words
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4. Bowman Tactical Communication System 544 words
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5. High Hedges 219 words
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6. Green Belt 254 words
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7. Civil Registration 296 words