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Commons Hansard for 16 February 1978 (Volume 944)

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Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House Of Commons

Prayers

European Assembly Elections Bill

New Clause 2

Approval Of Salaries, &C

Schedule 1

Simple Majority System (For Great Britain) With Stv (For Northern Ireland)

Royal Marsden Hospital (Convicted Social Worker)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions

Home Department

Alcoholic Liquor (Sale To Juveniles)

Police Sergeant Michael Paling

Postal Voting (Wales)

Mr Anselmo Gomez

Mrs Yvonne Jones

Mugging

Suspected Murderer (West Yorkshire)

Ku-Klux Klan

Summer Time

Legal Services (Royal Commission)

Camden Borough Council

United Nations (Secretary General)

Tuc And Cbi

Federal Republic Of Germany (Chancellor)

Chancellor Of The Exchequer (Speech)

East Surrey

Members' Pay

European Assembly (British Delegation)

Prime Minister's Office (Staff)

European Community (Legislation)

Environment

Mobile Homes Act 1975

Local Government Finance

Manpower Services Commission (Sheffield Premises)

Inland Waterways

Stockport (Compulsory Purchase Orders)

Floods, 1953 (Relief Funds)

Local Authority Mortgages

Cemeteries And Crematoria

Community Land

Transport

Road Projects (Northern Region)

M40 (Waterstock To Warwick)

Education And Science

11-Plus Examination

Subsistence Grants (Unmarried Mothers)

Buildings (Insulation)

Energy

Sizewell Nuclear Power Station

Domestic Consumers

Continental Shelf (Area Designation)

Scotland

Regional Employment Premium

Hospitals (Food)

Local Authority Bursaries

Geriatric Beds

Glasgow East End Project

Crofter Houses

Regional Employment Premium

Mountain Areas

Employment

Civil Service

Pay (Unmarried Mothers)

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food

Milk Marketing

National Farmers' Union

Sheepmeat

Farm Incomes

Fishing Rights

Scottish National Farmers' Union

Animals (Exports)

Forestry Commission

European Community

Common Fisheries Policy

Flood Warnings

Lime

Fish Stocks (Conservation)

Franco-Irish Sheep Agreement

Poultry And Meat Products (Plant Inspections)

Tied Cottages

Apprentices

"Food From Our Own Resources"

Food Production

Common Agricultural Policy

Weather Damage

Skimmed Milk

Flood Reclamation Work (Lowestoft)

Green Pound

Employment

Redundancy

Pay Policy

Earnings

Pay Settlements (Government Action)

Newham

Manpower Services Commission

Secretary Of State (Engagements)

Self-Employed Persons

Government Cars

Fishing Industry

Liverpool (Secretary Of State's Visit)

Teachers' Unions (Membership)

Contract Cleaning

Unemployment Benefit

Hotels And Restaurants

Community Industry (Ormskirk)

European Community

Political Co-Operation Meeting

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs

Diplomatic Immunity

Departmental Personnel (Parentage)

Industry

British Steel Corporation

Advance Factories

Ferranti Ltd

Government Contracts

Tungsten And Chromium

Phosphates (Fluorine Loss)

Shipbuilding (Redundancy Payments)

Advance Factories (Kirkby)

Paper And Board (Import Quotas)

Prices And Consumer Protection

Trade

Motor Vehicles (Japan)

Luton Airport

Overseas Development

South West Africa People's Organisation (Students)

Vietnam (Merchant Ships)

Belize (Citrus Fruit)

Social Services

Benefits (Male Claimants)

Social Workers

Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester

Sickness Benefit

Psychiatric Patients

Mobility And Attendance Allowances

Tax Allowances

King's Lynn District General Hospital

Oranges

Elderly Persons, Lowestoft

Inner London (Doctors' Lists)

Resource Allocation Working Party Formula

Eraldin

Wisbech

Unemployment Benefit

Children (Secure Units)

Barbiturates

National Finance

Retirement Pension

Money Supply

Income Tax

Tax Assessments (Interest)

Civil Servants' Housing (Northern Ireland)

Social Security Benefits

Wife Allowance

£1 Notes

Ministerial Residences

International Monetary Fund

Parliamentary Commissioner For Administration (Case Report)

Export Prices

Tax Thresholds

Pay Settlements (Government Action)

Industrial And Provident Societies (Share Interest)

Road Haulage Firms

North Sea Gas

Fuel Bills

Northern Ireland

Alcoholic Liquor (Young People)

Grammar Schools

Comprehensive Education

Statutory Bodies (Departments Of Commerce And Finance)

Alcoholism

Public Works Contracts

Unemployed Persons

Public Expenditure

Wales

Land Authority For Wales

Defence

War Records (Count Tolstoy's Request)

Helicopters

Civilian Pay And Records Office

Army Manpower

Infantry Demonstration Battalion

Hs128 Aircraft

Arms Production

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs

Human Rights Treaties And Conventions

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Commons Chamber

Oral Answers To Questions

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food

Orders Of The Day

European Assembly Elections Bill

New Clause 2

Schedule 1

Written Answers

Home Department

House Of Commons

Environment

Transport

Education And Science

Energy

Scotland

Civil Service

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food

Employment

European Community

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs

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Trade

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National Finance

Northern Ireland

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Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs

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