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Commons Hansard for 3 March 2009 (Volume 488)
From the bound volume. Last updated
13 May 2018 at 8.01pm.
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
Building Regulations (Thermal Efficiency)
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Icelandic Banks (Local Authority Finances)
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Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Section 106 Agreements)
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Homes and Communities Agency
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Affordable Accommodation (Private Rented Sector)
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Playing Fields
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Traveller Sites
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Government Offices for the Regions
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Topical Questions
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Points of Order
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Employment Retention
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Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism
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Corporation Tax Bill
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Business of the House
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Regional Select Committees (Membership)
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Select Committees (Chairmen), Liaison Committee and Green Book
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Business without Debate
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Private James Smith
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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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Latin America
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Primary School Places (London)
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Waste (Gloucestershire)
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Nepal
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Election Observation
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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
Transport
Departmental Data Protection
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Departmental Leave
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Departmental NDPBs: Empty Property
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Departmental Publications
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DVLA: Personal Records
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Park and Ride Schemes: Coastal Areas
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Railways: Sussex
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Rolling Stock
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Safer Roads Humber
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Wheel Clamping: Scotland
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Home Department
Anti-Semitism: West Midlands
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Appropriate Adults
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Asylum
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Asylum: Children
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Bail
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Crime: Economic Situation
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Detainees: Prostitution
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Firearms
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Genetics: Databases
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Human Trafficking
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Human Trafficking: Essex
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Personation
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Police Community Support Officers: Chorley
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Police: Accidents
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Police: Conferences
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Police: Finance
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Police: Firearms
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Prosecutions: Greater London
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Prostitution
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Prostitution: Local Government
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Sex Establishments: Licensing
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Speed Limits: Fines
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Treaty of Lisbon
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War Crimes
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Subsidies
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Bovine Tuberculosis
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Departmental Data Protection
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Departmental Sick Leave
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Drinking Water
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Entry Level Stewardship Scheme
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Environment Protection
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Farmers’ Markets: Finance
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Fisheries
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Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: Fees and Charges
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Sewers: Fats
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Welsh Language
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Abortion
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Afghanistan: Drugs
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Armed Forces: Deployment
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Binyam Mohamed
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Birtukan Mideksa
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Diplomatic Service
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Brussels: Visits Abroad
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Colombia: Drugs
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Departmental Foreign Workers
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Departmental Plants
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Departmental Work Experience
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Family Planning
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Foreign Students
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Group of Twenty: London Summit
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Iran: Christianity
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Middle East: Armed Conflict
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Pakistan: Christianity
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Roy Bennett
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Sri Lanka: Armed Conflict
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Sri Lanka: Religious Freedom
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Terrorism: Finance
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Tibet: Politics and Government
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Turkey: Kurds
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United States: Visits Abroad
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Written Questions: Government Responses
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Zimbabwe: Asylum
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Treasury
Banks
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Banks: Finance
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Child Care Vouchers: Self-employed
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Departmental Internet
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Income Tax: Tax Allowances
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Members: Correspondence
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Money Laundering
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Mortgages
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Mortgages: Complaints
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Non-domestic Rates: South West
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Pensioners: Income
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Private Finance Initiative
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Royal Bank of Scotland
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Stocks and Shares: Taxation
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Tax Avoidance
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Valuation Office: Standards
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Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Arms Trade: Exports
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Business: Government Assistance
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Credit
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Credit: Insurance
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Departmental Foreign Workers
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Departmental Gifts
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Drugs: Industry
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Electronic Equipment: Waste Disposal
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Environment Protection
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Gulf Co-operation Council
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Supermarkets: Complaints
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Television: Waste Disposal
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Defence
Afghanistan and Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
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Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
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Aircraft Carriers
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Armed Forces: Casualties
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Armed Forces: Compensation
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Armed Forces: Hearing Impaired
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Armed Forces: Languages
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Armed Forces: Manpower
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Armed Forces: Mental Illness
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Armed Forces: Pay
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Defence: Procurement
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Departmental Data Protection
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Departmental Public Expenditure
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Departmental Training
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Detainees
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Future Large Aircraft
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Military Aircraft: Helicopters
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Navy: Piracy
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Peacekeeping Operations
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Somalia: Piracy
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Territorial Army: Fulham
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Territorial Army: Pay
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Tornado Aircraft: Weapons
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Veterans Advice Unit: Manpower
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Warships
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Duchy of Lancaster
Civil Servants: Pensions
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Departmental Data Protection
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Departmental Internet
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Departmental Staff Surveys
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Employment
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Government Departments: ICT
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Ministerial Policy Advisers: Public Relations
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Non-departmental Public Bodies: Recruitment
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Voluntary Organisations: Government Assistance
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Health
Abortion
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Autism: Durham
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Breast Cancer: Health Services
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Contraceptives
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Contraceptives: Finance
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Dementia: Greater London
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Dental Services
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Dental Services: Hertfordshire
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Departmental Art Works
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Departmental Data Protection
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Eating Disorders
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Foetal Anti-convulsant Syndrome
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Great Western Hospital: Waiting Lists
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Health Services: Complaints
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Health Visitors: Manpower
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HIV Infection
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Hospital Beds
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Hospitals: Cleaning Services
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Hospitals: ICT
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Learning Disability
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Lung Cancer: North West
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Maternity Services
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Maternity Services: Finance
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Medical Records: Data Protection
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Mental Health Services
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Mental Health Services: Restraint Techniques
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NHS Foundation Trusts
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NHS: Legal Costs
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NHS: Manpower
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NHS: Redundancy Pay
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Patient Choice Schemes
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Perinatal Mortality: Research
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Prescription Drugs: Costs
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Prescriptions
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Ritalin: Children
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Sickle Cell Diseases
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Social Services
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Social Services: Finance
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Sunbeds
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Teenage Pregnancy
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West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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Westminster City Council
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Justice
Bailiffs: Powers
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Children: Abuse
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Community Orders
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Criminal Cases Review Commission
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Dangerous Dogs Act 1991
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Departmental Art Works
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Departmental Pay
(item number 1)
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Departmental Public Consultation
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Emergency Calls: Wales
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Howard League for Penal Reform
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Legal Aid: Children
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Legal Aid: Housing
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Mentally Disturbed Offenders
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Policing and Crime Bill 2008-09
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Prison Sentences: Ethnic Groups
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Prisoners Transfers
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Prisoners: Expenditure
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Reoffenders
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Suicide: Internet
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Young Offender Institutions
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Young Offenders: Greater London
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Energy and Climate Change
Carbon Emissions
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Climate Change
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Climate Change: International Cooperation
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Combined Heat and Power: Oils
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Departmental Foreign Workers
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Departmental Public Appointments
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Energy Supply
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Energy: Prices
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Fines
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Fuels: Prices
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Home Energy Conservation Act 1995
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Marine Renewables Deployment Fund
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Members: Correspondence
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Renewable Energy
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Renewable Energy: Public Sector
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Renewable Energy: Scotland
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Sight Impaired
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Warm Front Scheme
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Wind Power
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Work and Pensions
Departmental Catering
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Departmental Data Protection
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Departmental Pay
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Departmental Working Hours
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Disability Living Allowance
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Disability Living Allowance: EC Nationals
(item number 1)
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Electronic Data Systems
(item number 1)
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Employment Services: Redundancy
(item number 1)
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Incapacity Benefit
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000140)
Invalid Vehicles: Elderly
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000141)
Jobseeker’s Allowance
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000142)
Members: Correspondence
(item number 1)
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Social Security Benefits: Disabled
(item number 1)
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State Retirement Pensions
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000145)
Communities and Local Government
Rural Community Enterprises
(item number 1)
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Traveller Sites
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000147)
Rough Sleeping
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000148)
Social Housing: Oxfordshire
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000149)
Working Neighbourhoods Fund
(item number 1)
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Flood Risk: Development
(item number 1)
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Regional Fire Control Rooms
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000152)
Repeat Planning Applications
(item number 1)
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House Building
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000154)
Gypsy and Traveller Sites
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(id 09030420000155)
Social Housing: North-West England
(item number 1)
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Business Rates: Humber Ports
(item number 1)
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Repossessed and Empty Houses
(item number 1)
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Right-to-buy Sales
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000159)
Sustainable Communities Act 2007
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000160)
Asylum: Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000161)
Compulsory Purchase: Travelling People
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000162)
Council Housing: Standards
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000163)
Council Housing: Sustainable Development
(item number 1)
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Disadvantaged
(item number 1)
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European Regional Development
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000166)
HomeBuy Scheme
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000167)
Housing: Construction
(item number 1)
(id 09030420000168)
Housing: Expenditure
(item number 1)
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Housing: North West
(item number 1)
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Lobbying
(item number 1)
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Local Government Finance
(item number 1)
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Local Government Finance: Eastbourne
(item number 1)
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Local Government Finance: Westminster
(item number 1)
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Local Government: Data Protection
(item number 1)
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Local Government: Standards
(item number 1)
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Migrant Workers Northwest
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Non-Domestic Rates
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Non-Domestic Rates: Small Businesses
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Regional Government: South West
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Regional Ministers: Travel
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Regional Planning and Development
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Rented Housing: Safety
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Squatting
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Tenants Rights: Crosby
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Children, Schools and Families
Academies
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Care Proceedings
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Children in Care
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Children: Databases
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Children: Day Care
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000007)
Children: Protection
(item number 1)
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Children: Social Workers
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Children’s Centres
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Cross-department Assessment Panel
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Education Maintenance Allowance: Hemel Hempstead
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Education: Children in Care
(item number 1)
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General Certificate of Secondary Education
(item number 1)
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Learning Disability
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000015)
Members: Correspondence
(item number 1)
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Pre-School Education
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000017)
Pupil Referral Units: Young Offenders
(item number 1)
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Pupils: Computers
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Residence Orders
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School Meals
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000021)
Schools: Buildings
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000022)
Schools: Private Finance Initiative
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000023)
Schools: Rural Areas
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000024)
Sixth Form Education: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000025)
Special Educational Needs: Young Offender Institution
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000026)
Sure Start Programme
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000027)
Swimming
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000028)
Teachers: Hertfordshire
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000029)
Teachers: Males
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000030)
Teachers: Pay
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000031)
Westminster City Council
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000032)
Young People’s Learning Agency
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000033)
International Development
Afghanistan
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000034)
Democratic Republic of Congo: Overseas Aid
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000035)
Departmental Broadcasting
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000036)
Departmental ICT
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000037)
Departmental Internet
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000038)
Departmental Manpower
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000039)
Departmental Recruitment
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000040)
Departmental Video Conferencing
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000041)
Departmental Visits Abroad
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000042)
International Planned Parenthood Federation
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000043)
Joint Environment, Infrastructure and Livelihoods Retreat
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000044)
Mass Media
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000045)
Population: China
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000046)
UN Population Fund
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000047)
Zimbabwe: Drinking Water
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000048)
Zimbabwe: Food
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000049)
Zimbabwe: Health Services
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000050)
Zimbabwe: Sanitation
(item number 1)
(id 09030431000051)
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