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Commons Hansard for 14 October 2008 (Volume 480)
From the bound volume. Last updated
13 May 2018 at 7.30pm.
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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Communities and Local Government
South-west Spatial Strategy
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Council Housing
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Empty Properties
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Sharia Law
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Regional Policy
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Permitted Development
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Topical Questions
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National Curriculum Tests
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Trading of Primates as Pets (Prohibition)
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Orders of the Day
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Banking Bill
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Banking Bill (programme)
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BANKING Bill (Carry-Over)
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Banking Bill [Money]
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South Central Rail Franchise
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Westminster Hall
Westminster Hall debates give Members an opportunity to raise local or national issues and receive a response from a government minister.
Westminster Hall
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Digital Television Switchover
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Rare Medical Conditions
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M3
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Sri Lanka
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Animal Testing
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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
Defence
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
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Armed Forces: Food
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China: Military Alliances
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Disabled
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European Fighter Aircraft
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Iran: Weapons
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Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
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Porton Down
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Trident Missiles
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Written Questions: Government Responses
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Work and Pensions
Better Government for Older People
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Council Tax Benefits: Scotland
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Elderly
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Occupational Pensions: Public Sector
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Social Security Benefits
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Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
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Innovation, Universities and Skills
Adult Education: Finance
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Apprentices
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Chelmsford College
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European High Power Laser Energy Research Facility
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Students: Fees and Charges
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Training: Interpreters
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Training: Trade Unions
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Vocational Qualification Day
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Justice
Alternatives to Prison: Mentally Ill
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Departmental Written Questions
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Driving Offences: Mobile Phones
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Drugs: Misuse
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Elections: Greater London
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Evidence: CCTV
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Family Courts
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Prisoners: Mentally Ill
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Prisoners: Pay
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Prisons: Crimes of Violence
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Prisons: Drugs
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Sentencing
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South East
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Written Questions: Government Responses
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Young Offenders: Sentencing
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Transport
A1: Elkesley
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A38
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Airports: Security
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Crossrail: Construction
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Cycling: Standards
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Departmental Telephone Services
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Inland Waterways: Finance
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Level Crossings: Accidents
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M25
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M25: Repairs and Maintenance
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M6
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Manchester Piccadilly to Manchester Airport Railway Line
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Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance
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Powers of Entry
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Railway Network
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Railways: Contracts
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Railways: Fares
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Railways: Milton Keynes
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Railways: Public Appointments
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Railways: Repairs and Maintenance
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Railways: Students
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Road Traffic Control: Carbon Emissions
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Roads: Construction
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Rolling Stock
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Speed Limits
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Stansted Airport: Exhaust Emissions
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Tolls
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Trains
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Trains: Crimes of Violence
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Subsidies
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Batteries: Recycling
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Bluetongue Disease: Vaccination
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Cereals: Exports
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Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal
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Fisheries: Nature Conservation
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Flood Control: Agriculture
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Floods: Farms
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Floods: Livestock
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Floods: Morpeth
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Food: Procurement
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Incinerators: Hazardous Substances
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Incinerators: Pollution
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Landfill: Hazardous Substances
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Marine Bill: Draft
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Pigeons: Avian Influenza
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Plastics: Waste Disposal
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Powers of Entry
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Rabies
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Sewers
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Tobacco: Agriculture
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Warm Front Scheme
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Waterwise: Finance
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Treasury
Banks: Regulation
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Bradford and Bingley
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Civil Servants: Relocation
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Debts
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Departmental Air Travel
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Excise Duties: Fuel Oil
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Ordnance Survey: Databases
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Powers of Entry
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Public Expenditure
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Public Sector: Pensions
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Taxation: Aviation
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Home Department
Antisocial Behaviour
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Asylum
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Asylum: Bassetlaw
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Asylum: Deportation
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Asylum: Kuwait
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Asylum: Occupied Territories
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Asylum: Sudan
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Crime Prevention: ICT
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Crime: Business
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Crime: Cambridgeshire
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Crime: Economic Situation
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Crime: Torbay
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Crimes Against Humanity
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Departmental Data Protection
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Departmental Procurement
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Departmental Security
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Drugs: Smuggling
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Entry Clearances
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Genetics: Databases
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Hezbollah
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Homicide: Prostitution
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Human Trafficking
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Identity and Passport Service: Contracts
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Identity and Passport Service: Thales SA
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Immigration Controls
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Immigration Officers: Training
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Immigration: Deportation
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Police: Firearms
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Police: Manpower
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Police: Stun Guns
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Prisoners: Foreigners
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Proceeds of Crime
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Security Guards: Licensing
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Serious and Organised Crime Agency: Finance
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Serious and Organised Crime Agency: Secondment
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Sexual Offences
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Surveillance
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Terrorism: Stop and Search
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Communities and Local Government
Firefighters
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Green Belt
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Infrastructure Planning Commission
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New Towns
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Violent Extremism
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Community Groups
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Fire Service (Havering)
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Home Information Packs
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Decent Homes Standard
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Local Government Constitution
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Port of Liverpool
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Eco-towns
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Affordable Housing
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Regeneration
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2012 Olympic Games
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Architects Registration Board
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Community Infrastructure Levy
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Council Housing: Immigrants
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Council Housing: Sales
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Council Tax
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County Councils: Marketing
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Departmental Marketing
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Derelict Land
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Empty Property
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Empty Property: Non-domestic Rates
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Housing: Construction
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Housing: Low Incomes
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Housing: Overcrowding
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Housing: Owner Occupation
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Housing: Repairs and Maintenance
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Housing: Standards
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Local Authorities: Housing
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Local Government Finance
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Local Government Finance: Bassetlaw
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Local Government: Bassetlaw
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Mortgages: North Lanarkshire
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Regional Planning and Development: South East
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Social Rented Housing: Sales
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Written Questions: Government Responses
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Children, Schools and Families
Academies
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Alderman Blaxill School Colchester
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Antisocial Behaviour
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Building Schools for the Future
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Canvey Island Secondary School: Playing Fields
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Children: Assessments
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Children: Databases
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Children: Disadvantaged
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Children: Human Trafficking
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Children: Literacy
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Children: Numeracy
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Children: Vetting
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Children’s Centres
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Children’s Centres: Disadvantaged
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Custody
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Departmental Consultants
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Departmental Manpower
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Departmental Public Participation
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Departmental Publications
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Departmental Redundancy Pay
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Departmental Telephone Services
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Diplomas: Mathematics
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Education Maintenance Allowance
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Education: Children in Care
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Education: Private Finance Initiative
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Education: Young People
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Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant
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General Certificate of Secondary Education
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Headteachers: Vacancies
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Health Education: Donors
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Health Education: Sex
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Higher Education: Disadvantaged
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Independent Schools: Assessments
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Languages: Schools
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Learning and Skills Council
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Members: Correspondence
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National Curriculum Tests
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Parents: Employment
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Pre-school Education
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Primary Capital Programmes
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Primary Education
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Primary Education: Class Sizes
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Primary Education: Gloucestershire
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Primary National Strategy
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Primary School: Admissions
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Primary Schools: Local Authorities
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Pupil Exclusions
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Pupils: Diplomas
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Pupils: Disadvantaged
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Pupils: Exclusions
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Pupils: Greater London
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School Meals: Stroud
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Schools
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Schools: Assessments
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Schools: Compensation
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Schools: Ethnic Minorities
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Schools: Finance
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Schools: Genetics
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Schools: Governing Bodies
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Schools: Planning
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Schools: Property
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Schools: Standards
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Schools: Sustainable Development
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Science: Schools
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Secondary Education: Standards
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Special Educational Needs
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Teachers: Foreigners
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Teachers: Gender
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Teachers: Qualifications
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Teachers: Vetting
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Teachers: Working Hours
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UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
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Vocational Training
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Young Offenders
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Young People: Unemployment
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Young People’s Learning Agency
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Health
Abortion
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Academic Health Science Centres
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Autism: Wirral
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Berkeley Hospital
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Blood: Finance
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Cancer: Health Services
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Care Homes
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CJD: Death
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Community Care: Disabled
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Departmental Telephone Services
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Departmental Written Questions
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Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Health Education: Greater London
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Health: Private Finance Initiative
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Hospital Wards: Gender
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Hospitals: Finance
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Industrial Diseases
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Industrial Diseases: Health Services
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Maternity Services
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Medical Equipment
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Medical Treatments: Radioactive Materials
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Mentally Ill: Children
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NHS Direct: Contracts
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NHS: Drugs
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NHS: Fees and Charges
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NHS: Finance
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Non-profit Making Associations: Finance
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Non-profit Making Associations: Forest of Dean
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Primary Care Trusts: Finance
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Social Services: Finance
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Surgery: Private Sector
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International Development
Adam Smith Institute
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Departmental Internet
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Developing Countries: Climate Change
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Developing Countries: Poverty
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Developing Countries: Private Sector
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Developing Countries: Water Supply
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Development Banks
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(id 0810158000042)
DFID Alumni Association
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000043)
Guyana: Overseas Aid
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000044)
Overseas Aid
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000045)
Piracy: Gulf of Aden
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000046)
Sudan: Elections
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000047)
Sudan: Security
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000048)
Tanzania: Water Supply
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000049)
Culture, Media and Sport
Alcoholic Drinks: Licensing
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000051)
Architecture: Education
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000052)
Art Works: Exports
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000053)
Buildings At Risk Register
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000054)
Cultural Heritage
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000055)
Cultural Heritage: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000056)
Cultural Relations
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000057)
Culture Online: Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000058)
Culture Online: Manpower
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000059)
Departmental Ceremonies
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000060)
Departmental Land
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000061)
Departmental Legislation
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000062)
Departmental NDPBs
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000063)
Departmental Property
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000064)
Departmental Public Relations
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000065)
Departmental Publications
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000066)
Digital Broadcasting
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000067)
English Heritage
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000068)
English Heritage: Educational Visits
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000069)
English Heritage: Energy Performance Certificates
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000070)
English Heritage: Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000071)
English Heritage: Surveys
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000072)
Invest to Save Budget
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000073)
Listed Buildings
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000074)
National Lottery
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000075)
Overseas Visitors
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000076)
Religious Buildings: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000077)
Sport England: Public Appointments
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000078)
Sports: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000079)
Statues
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000080)
Swimming: Concessions
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000081)
Swimming: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000082)
Television: Licensing
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000083)
UK Film Council: Recruitment
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000084)
World Creative Business Conference
(item number 1)
(id 0810158000085)
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