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Commons Hansard for 7 February 2008 (Volume 471)
From the bound volume. Last updated
13 May 2018 at 8.08pm.
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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Private Business
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Oral Answers to Questions
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Women and Equality
Discrimination
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Women's Suffrage
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Human Trafficking
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Rape Crisis Centres
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Female Entrepreneurs
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Child Care
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Business of the House
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Flanagan Review
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Topical Debate
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NHS Staffing
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European Scrutiny (Standing Orders)
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Petitions
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Post Office Closures (Newport)
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Post Office Closures (North Yorkshire)
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Suicide Prevention
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Written Statements
Written statements are normally used to put the day-to-day business of government on the official record and in the public domain.
Written Answers
Content for Written Answers.
Written Answers to Questions
Culture, Media and Sport
Archaeology
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Casinos: Licensing
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Christmas
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Gambling
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Horse Racing: Betting Levy
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Northcott Theatre
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Olympic Games 2012
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Performing Arts: Music
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Public Libraries
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Secondary Education: Sports
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Sports: Learning Disability
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Water Sports: Finance
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Communities and Local Government
Bedfordshire
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Coastal Erosion
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Council Housing: Eligibility
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Departmental Telephone Services
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Empty Property: Expenditure
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Empty Property: Prisoners
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Energy: Consumption
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Green Belt
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Home Information Packs
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Home Information Packs: Finance
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Home Information Packs: Pilot Schemes
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Housing Market: Expenditure
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Housing Market: Regional Planning and Development
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Housing: Low Incomes
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Housing: Standards
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Local Government: Elections
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Planning Permission: Halifax
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Planning Permission: Renewable Energy
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Quarrying: Planning Permission
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Religious Buildings
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Representing the Future
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RLW: Cambridgeshire
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Shropshire
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Sustainable Development
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Thames Gateway: Domestic Visits
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Thames Gateway: Public Appointments
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Urban Areas: Sustainable Development
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Wetlands: Conservation
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Written Questions
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Subsidies
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Avian Influenza
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Avian Influenza: Testing
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Beef: Imports
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Bluetongue Disease
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Carbon Emissions: Standards
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Cetaceans: Fishing Catches
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Climate Change
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Departmental Freedom of Information
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Departmental Marketing
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Departmental Recycling
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Disease Control: Bovine Tuberculosis
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Energy: Computer Hardware
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Energy: Conservation
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Energy: Environment Protection
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Flood Control: Finance
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Food: Origin Marking
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Home Energy Efficiency Scheme
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Home Energy Efficiency Scheme: Grants
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Horses: Animal Welfare
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Horses: Transport
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Housing: Rural Areas
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Influenza
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National Fallen Stock Collection and Disposal Scheme
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Political Impartiality
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Poultry
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Warm Front Scheme: Greater London
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Wind Power: Licensing
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Carbon Emissions
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Work and Pensions
Children: Maintenance
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Departmental Foreign Workers
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Departmental ICT
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Departmental Public Appointments
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Disability Living Allowance
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Disability Living Allowance: Children
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Employment Schemes: Greater London
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Incapacity Benefit
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Industrial Health and Safety: Influenza
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Industrial Health and Safety: Noise
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Industrial Health and Safety: Prosecutions
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Local Employment Partnerships: Oxfordshire
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Motability Vehicle Scheme
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National Insurance
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Natural Gas: Safety
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New Deal Schemes: Enfield
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Pension Credit
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Pensioners: Council Tax Benefits
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Pensioners: Fuel Poverty
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Pensioners: Poverty
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Performance Appraisals
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Poverty: Young People
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Social Security Benefits: Young People
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Trade Unions
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Workstep: Finance
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Treasury
Alcoholic Drinks: Death
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British Airports Authority
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Children: Death
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Crown Lands and Estates: Wind Power
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Departmental Advertising
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Departmental Marketing
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Departmental Training
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Employment Agencies
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Employment: Greater London
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Excise Duties: Diesel Fuel
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Income Tax
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Intimidation
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Lone Parents
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Pay
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Revenue and Customs: Data Protection
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Revenue and Customs: Postal Services
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Sexual Harassment
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Skin Cancer
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Smuggling: Tobacco
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Tax Avoidance
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Taxation: Aviation
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Taxation: Business
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Taxation: Self-Assessment
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Unemployment: Wirral
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Wines: Imports
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Scotland
Capita
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Civil Servants
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Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
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Electoral Register
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Fair Trade Initiative
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Scotland Office
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International Development
Colombia: Drugs
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Departmental ICT
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Departmental Travel
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Departmental Visits Abroad
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Developing Countries: Disaster Relief
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Intimidation
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Members: Correspondence
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Pacific Islands: EU Aid
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Rwanda: Economic Situation
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Sexual Harassment
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Sudan: Peacekeeping Operations
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Yemen: Overseas Aid
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Home Department
Animal Welfare: Protest
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Antisocial Behaviour: Crime Prevention
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Arrests: Anabolic Steroids
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Circumcision: Females
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Crime: Drugs
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Crime: Internet
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Genetics: Databases
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Human Trafficking
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Immigration
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Passports: Sexual Offences
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Proceeds of Crime
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Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi
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Children, Schools and Families
Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service: Finance
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Children: Abuse
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Children: Day Care
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Health Education: Alcoholic Drinks
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Obesity
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Teenage Pregnancy: Bexley
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Written Questions
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Overseas Territories: Biodiversity
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Capita
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Colombia: Drugs
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Committee of Permanent Representatives
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Darfur: Peacekeeping Operations
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Civil Rights
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Departmental Languages
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Departmental Reorganisation
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Dubai: Money Laundering
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EU Budget
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EU Defence Policy
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EU Energy Policy
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EU High Representative (CFSP): Powers
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EU Reform: Treaties
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Gough Island: Biodiversity
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Kenya: Politics and Government
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Serbia: Diplomatic Relations
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Simon Mann
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Sudan: Chad
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Sudan: Peace Negotiations
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Sudan: Peacekeeping Operations
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Sudan: Politics and Government
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Darfur: Peacekeeping Operations
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Transport
Air Routes: Felixstowe
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Air Routes: Urban Areas
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Airedale and Wharfedale Lines
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Airports: Baggage
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Aviation: Mental Health
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Aviation: Security
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Bus Services
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Bus Services: Standards
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Cars: Carbon Emissions
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Concessionary Bus Travel
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Departmental Freedom of Information
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Departmental Public Relations
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Departmental Travel
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Departmental Visits Abroad
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Fair Trade Initiative
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Ferries: Licensing
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Heathrow Airport: Archaeology
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Heathrow Airport: Nature Conservation
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Lorries: Accidents
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Lorries: Foreign Companies
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Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Standards
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National Security Strategy
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Railway Stations: Disabled
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Railways: Subsidies
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Roads: Accidents
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Roads: Construction
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Rolling Stock
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Sea Rescue: Iceland
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Tolls: Road Signs and Markings
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Trains: Taunton
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Justice
Bail
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Circumcisions: Females
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Departmental Advertising
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Departmental Assets
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Departmental Carbon Emissions
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Departmental ICT
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Departmental Land
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Departmental Recycling
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Domestic Violence: Sentencing
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E-Conveyancing Pilot
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Electoral Register
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Fair Trade Initiative
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Fatal Accident Injury System
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Members: Correspondence
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Ministry of Justice: Reorganisation
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Offender Management Service: Trade Unions
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Offenders: Housing
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Post-Mortems: Children
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PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Prison and Probation Service: Wales
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Prisoners
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Prisoners Release
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Prisoners: Taxis
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Carter Review Team
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Prisons: Chelmsford
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Regional Offender Manager: Wales
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Young Offenders: Injuries
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Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Coal
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Coal Fired Power Stations: Kingsnorth
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Coal: Power Stations
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Departmental Equality
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Departmental Information Officers
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Departmental Whistleblowers
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Departmental Telephone Services
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Departmental Vehicles
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Energy: Prices
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Engineering
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Fireworks
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Fuel Poverty
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Mobile Phones
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National Secretariat of the Regional Development Agencies for England
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Nuclear Power Stations: Decommissioning
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Post Offices: Closures
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Post Offices: EU Action
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Post Offices: Leicester
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Postwatch: Finance
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Regional Development Agencies: Plastic Bags
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Trades Union Congress: Political Levy
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Health
Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
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Barnet Primary Care Trust: Waiting Lists
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Broomfield Hospital: Alcoholic Drinks
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Carr-Hill Formula Review
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Community Care
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Community Nurses: Easington
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Compulsorily Detained Mental Patients
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County Durham Primary Care Trust
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Family Practitioner Services: Rural Areas
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Fluoride: Water
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Gambling: Health Services
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General Practitioners: Enfield
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General Practitioners: Portsmouth
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Health Hazards: Lighting
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Health Services
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Health Services: Greater London
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Health Services: Private Sector
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Health Services: Public Participation
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Hospital Telephones
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Mixed Sex Wards
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Hospitals: Admissions
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Hospitals: Greater London
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Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Clostridium Difficile
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Human Papilloma Virus: Vaccination
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Local Involvement Networks
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Macular Degeneration
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Malnutrition
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Mass Media
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Mental Health Services: Community Care
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Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Finance
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Music: Industrial Health and Safety
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Neurology
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Maternity Services
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NHS: Drugs
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NHS: Finance
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NHS: Manpower
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North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Finance
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North West Brussels Office: Health
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Obesity
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000092)
Palliative Care: Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000093)
Post-Mortems: Children
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000094)
Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000095)
Primary Care: Standards
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000096)
Sexual Dysfunction: Drugs
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000097)
Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospitals Trust: Infectious Diseases
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000098)
Smoking: Young People
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000099)
Defence
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000100)
Armed Forces: Absence Without Leave
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000101)
Armed Forces: Manpower
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000102)
Armed Forces: Public Relations
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000103)
Armed Forces: Recruitment
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000104)
Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Procurement
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000105)
Bombs
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000106)
Bowman Combat Radio System
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000107)
Bowman Combat Radio System: Batteries
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000108)
Chad: Peacekeeping Operations
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000109)
Colombia: Drugs
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000110)
Cyprus: Military Bases
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000111)
Departmental Assets
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000112)
Departmental Aviation
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000113)
Departmental Information Officers
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000114)
Departmental Marketing
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000115)
Departmental Pay
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000116)
Departmental Public Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000117)
Departmental Vehicles
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000118)
Falkland Islands: Land Mines
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000119)
Fuels
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000120)
Future Rapid Effect System
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000121)
Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft: Procurement
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000122)
Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability Programme
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000123)
Military Aircraft
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000124)
Military Equipment: Land Mines
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000125)
Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency: Manpower
(item number 1)
(id 08020830000126)
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