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Commons Hansard for 27 October 2009 (Volume 498)
From the bound volume. Last updated
13 May 2018 at 7.25pm.
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
Contingency Arrangements (Fire Service)
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Sheltered Accommodation
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Planning (Open-cast Mining)
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Regional Spatial Strategy
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Regional Spatial Strategy
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Planning Policy Guidance
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Council House Building
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(id 09102772000024)
Affordable Housing
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Housing Pledge (Apprenticeships)
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Business Rates
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Local Spending Reports
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Local Government (East Anglia)
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Wirral Borough Council (Asset Review)
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Green Belt
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Free Swimming Scheme
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Topical Questions
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Points of Order
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Closed Circuit Television (Monitoring and Promotion)
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Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]
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Opposition Day
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Parading in Northern Ireland
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Business without Debate
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Fabio Alves-Nunes
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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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Biofuels
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Military Vehicles and Aircraft
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Swindon to Kemble Railway
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Central London Businesses
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Family Finances
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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
Work and Pensions
Child Poverty Bill
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Cold Weather Payments: Bedfordshire
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Housing Benefit
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Housing Benefit: Bedfordshire
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Housing Benefit: Lone Parents
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New Deal Schemes: Enfield
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Poverty: Children
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Winter Fuel Payments
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Winter Fuel Payments: Overseas Residence
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Transport
Airports: Thames Estuary
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Aviation: Health Hazards
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Aviation: Waltham Forest
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Bus Services: Concessions
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Buses: York
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Crossrail Line
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Departmental Manpower
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Departmental Telephone Services
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First TransPennine Express: Standards
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Heathrow Airport
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Parking
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Railways: Freight
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Railways: Penalty Fares
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Railways: Staffordshire
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Road Signs and Markings: Research
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Road Signs and Markings: Reviews
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Road Traffic Control
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Roads: Accidents
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Roads: Finance
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Transport: Infrastructure
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Tunnels: Mobile Phones
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Agriculture: Environment Protection
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Agriculture: Subsidies
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Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
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Climate Change: Farming
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(id 09102775000045)
Iraq Committee of Inquiry
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Noise
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Rights of Way: Yorkshire and the Humber
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Sheep: Tagging
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Water Supply
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Defence
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
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Armed Forces: Dental Services
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Armed Forces: Disciplinary Proceedings
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Armed Forces: Families
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Armed Forces: Health Services
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Armed Forces: Housing
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Armed Forces: Vetting
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Armoured Fighting Vehicles
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(id 09102775000058)
Defence Academy: Finance
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(id 09102775000059)
Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
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Joint Exercises
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Met Office
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Territorial Army
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Communities and Local Government
Regional Spatial Strategy
(item number 1)
(id 09102795000006)
Council House Building
(item number 1)
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Code For Sustainable Homes
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Unitary Authority Status
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Business Rates
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Homelessness Street Counts
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(id 09102795000011)
Rent Equalisation
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(id 09102795000012)
Aerials: Planning Permission
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(id 09102795000013)
Business Improvement Districts: Scotland
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(id 09102795000014)
Council Housing: Tenants
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Departmental Postal Services
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Disabled Facilities Grant
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Infrastructure Planning Commission
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Local Government: Publicity
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Non-Domestic Rates
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Non-domestic Rates: Religious Buildings
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Pakistan
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Parking: Planning Permission
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Regional Planning and Development
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Social Rented Housing
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Cabinet Office
10 Downing Street
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Admiralty House
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Childbirth
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Departmental Postal Services
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Lone Parents: Bexley
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Sarah Brown
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Teenage Pregnancy
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Council: Manpower
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Burma: Human Rights
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China: Official Engagements
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Departmental Telephone Services
(item number 1)
(id 09102795000036)
EU: Young People
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Human Trafficking
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Iraq Committee of Inquiry
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Israel: Nuclear Weapons
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Members: Correspondence
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Middle East: Peace Negotiations
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Mordechai Vanunu
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Party Conferences
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Passports: Embassies
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(id 09102795000045)
Thailand: Prisoners
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Turkey
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(id 09102795000047)
Visits Abroad
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Western Sahara: Human Rights
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Health
Alcoholic Drinks: Children
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(id 09102795000050)
Appointment Reminder Schemes
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(id 09102795000051)
Blood: Contamination
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(id 09102795000052)
Care Homes: Food
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(id 09102795000053)
Care Homes: Standards
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(id 09102795000054)
Community Care
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(id 09102795000055)
Deficiency Diseases: Young People
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(id 09102795000056)
Dementia
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(id 09102795000057)
Douglas House
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Haematology
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Health Services: Illegal Immigrants
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Health Services: Voluntary Work
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HIV Infection
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(id 09102795000062)
Home Care Services
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(id 09102795000063)
Mental Health Services
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(id 09102795000064)
NHS: Compensation
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(id 09102795000065)
NHS: Finance
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(id 09102795000066)
NHS: Negligence
(item number 1)
(id 09102795000067)
NHS: Publications
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(id 09102795000068)
NHS: Standards
(item number 1)
(id 09102795000069)
Nottingham University Hospital
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(id 09102795000070)
Nutrition
(item number 1)
(id 09102795000071)
Premature Births: Death
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(id 09102795000072)
Social Services
(item number 1)
(id 09102795000073)
Social Services: Leeds
(item number 1)
(id 09102795000074)
Swine Flu: Leeds
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(id 09102795000075)
Treasury
Departmental Telephone Services
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000008)
Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000009)
Financial Services: Pay
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000010)
Fossil Fuel Levy: Scotland
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000011)
Insurance: Motor Vehicles
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000012)
Local Government: Assets
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000013)
Personal Income
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(id 091027102000014)
Presbyterian Mutual Society
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Revenue and Customs: Northern Ireland
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Revenue and Customs: Repayment
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(id 091027102000017)
Taxation: Banks
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(id 091027102000018)
Taxation: Gambling
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000019)
Taxation: Self-Assessment
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(id 091027102000020)
Taxation: Self-Assessment
(item number 1)
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Energy and Climate Change
Biofuels
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000022)
Carbon Emissions: Standards
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000023)
Climate Change
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000024)
Climate Change: Publicity
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000025)
Electricity
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(id 091027102000026)
Energy Supply
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000027)
Party Conferences
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Renewable Energy
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(id 091027102000029)
Renewable Energy: Food
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(id 091027102000030)
Solar Power: East Midlands
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(id 091027102000031)
Warm Front Scheme
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000032)
Warm Front Scheme: Leeds
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000033)
Home Department
Animal Experiments: Scotland
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000034)
Antisocial Behaviour
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(id 091027102000035)
Antisocial Behaviour Orders
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Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Coventry
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(id 091027102000037)
Antisocial Behaviour Orders: Derbyshire
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(id 091027102000038)
Crime: North Yorkshire
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000039)
Detection Rates: North Yorkshire
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000040)
DNA: Databases
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000041)
Firearms
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000042)
Fixed Penalties
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000043)
Identity Cards: Costs
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(id 091027102000044)
Passports: Fees and Charges
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(id 091027102000045)
Police Community Support Officers: Derbyshire
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(id 091027102000047)
Police Custody: Health Services
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(id 091027102000048)
Police: Pensions
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(id 091027102000049)
Police: Public Appointments
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(id 091027102000050)
Terrorism: Coventry
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Theft
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Vetting: Schools
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(id 091027102000053)
Weston Hostel
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(id 091027102000054)
Children, Schools and Families
Academies: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000055)
Children In Care
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000056)
Children's Commissioner for England
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000057)
Closed Circuit Television
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000058)
Damian McBride
(item number 1)
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Departmental Energy
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000060)
Departmental Female Staff
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000061)
Departmental Postal Services
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000062)
Departmental Public Expenditure
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000063)
Departmental Visits Abroad
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000064)
Derek Draper and Charlie Whelan
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(id 091027102000065)
Eating Disorders: Curriculum
(item number 1)
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Family Intervention Projects
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(id 091027102000067)
Further Education: Admissions
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000068)
Health Education: Sex
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000069)
Independent Safeguarding Authority
(item number 1)
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Independent Safeguarding Authority: Databases
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000071)
National Curriculum Tests: Disadvantaged Pupils
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Nurseries: West Yorkshire
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(id 091027102000073)
Party Conferences
(item number 1)
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Schools: Fire Prevention
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Schools: Inspections
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Schools: Transport
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Schools: Travel
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Social Services: Children
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Special Educational Needs: Disadvantaged Pupils
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Young People: Care Homes
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Culture, Media and Sport
Betting: Internet
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Casinos
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Christmas
(item number 1)
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Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment: Pay
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Community Amateur Sports Clubs Scheme
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Cultural Heritage
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Departmental Logos
(item number 1)
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Departmental Telephone Services
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000089)
Gambling Commission: Manpower
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000090)
Gambling Commission: Office of the National Lottery
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000091)
Gambling: Internet
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000092)
Horse Racing: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000093)
International Olympic Committee
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000094)
Monitor Consultancy
(item number 1)
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Publications: Sight Impaired
(item number 1)
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Recreation Spaces: VAT
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000097)
Sport England: Internet
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000098)
Sporting Events: Finance
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000099)
Sports: Corporation Tax
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(id 091027102000100)
Sports: Females
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000101)
Justice
Advocacy: Qualifications
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000102)
Aleksey Baranovsky
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000103)
Approved Premises: Females
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000104)
Copyright: Music
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000105)
Coroners: Armed Forces
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000106)
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000107)
Departmental Advertising
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000108)
Departmental Motor Vehicles
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000109)
Departmental Telephone Services
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000110)
Injunctions
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000111)
Iraq Committee of Inquiry
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000112)
Prisoners Release
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000113)
Prisoners Transfers
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000114)
Prisoners: Females
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000115)
Prisons: Construction
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(id 091027102000116)
Prisons: Convictions
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000117)
Prisons: Manpower
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000118)
Sexual Offences: Bail Accommodation and Support Service
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000119)
Tribunals: Legal Aid
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000120)
Witnesses: Elderly and Mentally Ill
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000121)
Business, Innovation and Skills
Apprentices
(item number 1)
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Apprentices: Milton Keynes
(item number 1)
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Business Links
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000124)
Business Links: Debts
(item number 1)
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Business: Government Assistance
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(id 091027102000126)
Business: Registration
(item number 1)
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Charities
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000128)
Computer Viruses
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000129)
Departmental Mergers
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000130)
Departmental Visits Abroad
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000131)
Further Education: Construction
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000132)
Further Education: Stoke on Trent
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000133)
GCSE and GCE A-Level: Young Offenders
(item number 1)
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Higher Education: Admissions
(item number 1)
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Manufacturing Industries: Leeds
(item number 1)
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Post Offices: East of England
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000137)
Post Offices: Norwich
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000138)
Regional Development Agencies: Pay
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000139)
Scotland
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000140)
Small Business Finance Forum
(item number 1)
(id 091027102000141)
Takeovers: Mass Media
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(id 091027102000142)
Urenco
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Vocational Training: Leeds
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(id 091027102000144)
Young People: Employment
(item number 1)
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Young People: Unemployed
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