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Commons Hansard for 7 November 1978 (Volume 957)
From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated
12 May 2018 at 12.14pm.
Commons Chamber
Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.
House Of Commons
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Prayers
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Oral Answers To Questions
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Social Services
Hospital Nurses
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Hospital Supervisors (Dispute)
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Sickness Benefit
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Supplementary Benefit (Review)
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Earnings Rule
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Hospital Workers (Disputes)
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Supplementary Benefit Recipients
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Family Practitioner Committees
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Pensioners (Christmas Bonus)
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Eltham And Mottingham Hospital
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National Health Service (Morale)
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Nigeria (Prime Minister's Visit)
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Flushing
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Prime Minister (Engagements)
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Northern Ireland (Water Supply)
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Northern Ireland (Remand Procedure)
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Statutory Instruments, &C
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Rhodesia
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Tinkers
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Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers To Questions
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Social Services
Disabled Housewives' Allowance
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Death Grant
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Hospital Waiting Lists
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Disabled Persons
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Supplementary Benefit (Rent Payments)
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Gorleston-On-Sea
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Heart Surgery Patients (Merseyside)
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Maternity Services
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National Health Service (Expenditure)
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Hospitals (Derbyshire)
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Health Service Trade Unions
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Motability
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Supplementary Benefit (Review)
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Deprived Health Areas
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Hospitals (Surrey)
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Mobility Allowance
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Hospital Nurses
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Nurses (Pay)
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National Insurance Contributions
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Pensioners (Christmas Bonus)
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Primary Medical Care
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Creaton Hospital, Northamptonshire
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Secure Units
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Health Services (Cornwall)
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Hospital Consultants
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National Health Service (Industrial Disputes)
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Birmingham
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Council Of Ministers
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National Health Service (Staff Morale)
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Benefits
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Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
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Bromley Area Health Authority
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One-Parent Families
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Infant Mortality
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Resource Allocation Working Party
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Rubella
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Child Benefit
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Employment
Low-Paid Workers
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Toluene Di-Isocyanate
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Government Bodies (Members' Pay And Expenses)
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Local Authority Employees, Scotland (Closed Shop)
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Trade Union Membership (Religious And Conscientious Objection)
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Home Department
Diana Irons
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Firearms
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Armed Robberies
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Rhodesia
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Certificates Of Unruliness
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Elections (Ballot Papers)
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Strangeways Prison
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Open Government
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Status Of Refugees
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Official Secrets Act
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Motoring Convictions (Insurance)
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Standards Of Conduct In Public Life
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Scotland
Rating Revaluation (Argyll)
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School Milk
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Teachers Of Gaelic
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School Children (Free Bus Travel)
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National Finance
Trustee Savings Banks (Commercial Lending)
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Inflation
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Overpaid Tax
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National Savings Bank
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Settling-In Allowance
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Premium Bonds
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North Sea Oil
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Money Supply
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£ Sterling
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Contingency Reserve
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Manufacturing (Competitiveness And Terms Of Trade)
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Productivity
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Money (Domestic Demand)
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Capital Transfer Tax
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Industry
Microprocessors (Acard Reports)
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Joint European Transport Aircraft
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Regional Aid
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Former Departmental Employees (Confidential Information)
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Transport
Exhaust Fumes (Lead Traps)
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British Railways (Pensioners' Concessionary Travel)
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Harrow (Orbital Ring Motorway)
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Petrol (Lead Additives)
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Social Services
One-Parent Families
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Nurses
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Community Homes (Secure Places)
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Pensions
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Departmental Letters
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Fluorides (Dispensing)
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Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton
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Mobility Allowance
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Opthalmologists
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Hospital Building (Preston)
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National Health Service (Speakman Report)
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Medicines(Promotional Expenditure)
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Pay Beds
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Infant Mortality
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Crutches
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National Health Service Employees (Pay)
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Hospital Waiting Lists
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Farmers' Lung
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Family Income Supplement
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Education And Science
Student Grants (Open University Courses)
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Nursery Education
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School Milk
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Pupil-Teacher Ratios
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School Ratios
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Prime Minister (Engagements)
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Preston
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Taoiseach
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Prime Minister (Broadcast)
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Tuc And Cbi
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Lusaka
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Coventry
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Woodchurch
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European Community Heads Of Government
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European Monetary System
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Kent
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Congleton
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Chorley
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Secretary Of State For Energy
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Reddish
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Chancellor Schmidt
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Devolution (Collective Cabinet Responsibility)
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Kirkby
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Hemel Hempstead
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Middlesbrough
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Kingswood
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United Nations
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President Kaunda (Prime Minister's Talks)
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Rhodesia
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Scotland
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Council Of Europe (United Kingdom Delegation)
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Wales
Aided School, Cefn Muriadog
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General Practitioners
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Cardigan (Hospital)
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Unemployed Persons
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Poultry Industry
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Defence
Service Pensions
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Low-Flying Routes
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Tanks
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Low-Flying Aircraft
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Zambia (Air Defence Missiles)
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