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Commons Hansard for 21 December 1999 (Volume 341)

From the digitised editions of archive material. Last updated 12 May 2018 at 3.01am.

Commons Chamber

Record of debates that happened in the House of Commons main chamber.

House Of Commons (item number 1) (id d1e9013b-e2e9-4bb3-89de-78b3acdf6196)
Prayers (item number 2) (id 8a795590-9636-4bd2-899a-c12879b71819)
Private Business (item number 3) (id 3db5e9d5-b47f-47a0-9e87-416152e8efa1)
Venezuela (item number 5) (id 4aa83bad-37a0-4d3c-9014-e2232f477724)
Millennium Preparedness (item number 6) (id abedbd38-0301-4c2f-a713-4009567d6f57)
Point Of Order (item number 7) (id 5f84d13f-9ec7-42a5-bb11-a8def5328226)

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id b0216f80-ffd7-4299-9189-754dc05defac)

Trade And Industry

E-Commerce (item number 1) (id d860e0a2-55e4-4241-ac5c-1656e3062358)
Corporate Assets (item number 1) (id 590aca66-602f-44ac-aa07-8cf06c7aecc0)
Gas Cookers (item number 1) (id d8709437-807e-4186-af34-033d19b2a6bd)
Compliance Costs (item number 1) (id cbe02d87-b9bf-46cd-8081-fd48d5737e20)
Explosives Acts (item number 1) (id 4ad265bb-9bb4-49d1-bbf1-a4f861ab644a)
Sri Lanka (Exports) (item number 1) (id 29c64e13-3746-45e7-bd0e-f423b6c9c6f2)
Black Shaheen (item number 1) (id c4d16bf9-1d92-482b-aa3e-3c0de9956663)
Consumer Advice (item number 1) (id 002b635a-c687-46e2-b6fa-644e4b3846d8)
Departmental Employees (Ethnic Minorities) (item number 1) (id 6b3705cd-f7f5-4f4a-adc1-c27cfd08647e)
Labelling (Animal Testing) (item number 1) (id fad37b5a-c7e9-4d5b-922c-2e346dbd132f)
Departmental Computers (item number 1) (id 3b0b0e6f-76a3-42fe-8108-5d328ee04846)
Manufacturing (Worcestershire) (item number 1) (id 5dbd81a1-11a7-481b-baa1-47eabd90beae)
Manufacturing Job Losses (item number 1) (id 39dd9795-f1b9-4c18-ac14-039723a508be)
White Zone (item number 1) (id 63557abe-1ab1-4fa9-b88f-4e8c03197c81)
Vaccine Exports (Iraq) (item number 1) (id ec88eb6c-6f86-413d-81cc-c8aa73d3435d)
Tupe Regulations (item number 1) (id 6b4a812b-43ee-4dc0-aeab-046964062680)
Departmental Productivity (item number 1) (id da6073df-0279-44a2-8716-8963ddbe3de5)
World Trade Organisation (item number 1) (id 903a8248-bf84-46cf-870b-431f21feee5d)
Car Hire Companies (Petrol Charges) (item number 1) (id eef6a0a5-4e9e-477f-a8bd-bb3ba9b1f778)
Blue Arrow Plc (item number 1) (id 5d0139c4-7691-41a6-aeb0-fd86da80cdb0)
Indonesia (item number 1) (id 181fd903-85c6-4cde-9460-ea41481a99a4)
Export Licences (item number 1) (id 8b299c95-6e2d-4686-81be-57baea4117b9)
Eu-Us Banana Dispute (item number 1) (id 0d85ca95-7ce1-48b9-b9dd-fad168c79e59)
Oil And Gas Production (item number 1) (id 8e9c1829-06bf-4ef6-8d23-17639552e0d6)
Business (Social And Environmental Responsibility) (item number 1) (id 25104de3-b689-42c9-99b7-25965376bcca)
Mortgages (Consumer Awareness) (item number 1) (id a2d59776-c3a9-4611-9461-f6ab8251aebd)
Engineering (item number 1) (id 070be079-c16b-49db-ad90-40fefcf1456e)
Hollis Industries (item number 1) (id b159b364-beb7-4d62-9773-b5a682dcc21a)
National Minimum Wage (item number 1) (id 7e46d2b8-981c-4234-a3c4-ddc31691dc36)
Assisted Areas Map (item number 1) (id af348ef7-e98a-49da-a65c-89363d648922)
Post Office (item number 1) (id 92ac05b0-902e-4c4b-9da4-c952b1840120)
Pensions (Part-Time Workers) (item number 1) (id 446c8ab7-cdd4-49a9-a788-d2f84c2f60ab)
Sky Television (item number 1) (id 63151060-d940-49a3-bcc9-2318e86b0766)
Toyota (item number 1) (id 465d07e7-27f8-481e-a08c-b842c3f5da08)
Post Office Network (Benefits Payments) (item number 1) (id 2f27b1d6-d9f8-4d9f-937f-ffad141c3b89)

Home Department

Departmental Employees (Disabled People) (item number 1) (id 6ec800bf-d967-426b-a60f-275482f10cd7)
Peat (item number 1) (id 03f9c59c-d287-4250-bc92-6c5913806d37)
Uk Passport (item number 1) (id 344fd73d-e2ae-48c1-b382-96ca51cb68ea)
Nathan Graham (item number 1) (id 00b45ef9-c2b6-4a87-8fac-477a2680a3a8)
Confiscated Assets (item number 1) (id 97fd7d5d-d531-4850-b09b-5eeaf8050365)
Prostitution (item number 1) (id f01dec7d-e94e-4a3b-aaea-9437056937aa)
Rape/Sexual Assault (item number 1) (id d71540ad-d662-4e18-ada4-9ffaf957ce4c)
Victim Support Budget (item number 1) (id 2876189e-d8b8-4ff9-8c10-0243258c5a12)
Domestic Violence (item number 1) (id 65a2722f-7264-4282-b4d9-0bd73514e68b)
Police Duties (Millennium) (item number 1) (id 775b8982-21d3-4166-9bad-d691660399a9)
Police Administrative Work (item number 1) (id b07e5ec6-1520-4667-9b7f-37c403274cb4)
Prison Overcrowding (item number 1) (id 2a06b87c-6ac8-4645-b0d2-2651c571eb65)
Projected Prison Population (item number 1) (id 93043a34-e9f7-4fda-8aba-9a003704e00f)
Police Headgear (item number 1) (id d4a47410-2f81-4d6d-b777-7083e1e15e71)
Income Tax (Guernsey) Law 1975 (item number 1) (id db017ebb-996b-40ff-9627-689d38490ef1)
Case Outcomes (item number 1) (id 338963c9-4d7b-4dc7-bc0e-260935cf33a1)
Sayyad Boland (item number 1) (id 2ed9f75c-4e3f-4763-aa17-4f03153dd657)
Paedophiles (item number 1) (id 85984e72-c526-449b-80d7-da292a926cb8)
Gaming (item number 1) (id 28aecc6a-ad6f-43bf-a503-d734dd318895)
Mothers And Infants (Prisons) (item number 1) (id 894eb079-054c-4fb3-818b-6e422e6850a1)
Sex And Drugs Markets (item number 1) (id 18a859c8-1e63-48da-8717-62b70df28468)
Metropolitan Police (C3i) Project (item number 1) (id 83a08121-83e5-43f1-a9dd-b6a58c737249)
Sex Offenders (item number 1) (id 6f7521f9-d909-44e2-8615-7b1e1e879509)
Neighbourhood Warden Schemes (item number 1) (id 1e8b7035-0d63-411b-8306-6a14b9302ebd)
Family Court Welfare Officers (item number 1) (id b93b9b32-6e43-43cd-9c2c-eb8e139b423a)
Racial Equality (item number 1) (id ccfa567a-4eaa-4f0a-9193-1874d8c97b64)
External Consultants (item number 1) (id 458588b2-6dba-4633-832c-9492cb0703da)
Driving Offences (item number 1) (id 8d1ddfcc-297a-4e98-a40c-8cc4537d5381)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id dd0654c0-4060-4f7f-b0c7-b3d0d5cad7c3)

Health

Ill Health (Incomes) (item number 1) (id b8ab244b-ff8c-412b-a9cc-07e868d2c1de)
Nhs Direct (item number 1) (id 0164966e-c6fa-4740-840d-87ebd5c43cf1)
Organ Donation (item number 1) (id 10b4ab05-ada8-4af4-b93e-3fc6c0ea7910)
Eye Tests (item number 1) (id 1227d594-abf4-4aea-87ba-c5e6b82c9f8b)
Private Medical Services (item number 1) (id 2702c287-4c96-443a-8224-ae3509c4fa9d)
Local Authority Social Care (item number 1) (id 2d99f77b-b130-40f7-a1db-e0a1658a0445)
Primary Health Care (item number 1) (id 51258836-0510-40e9-bdc3-e3b921c63117)
Cervical Cancer (item number 1) (id 7954430a-20d1-4255-9e06-3d9cb5f1f808)
Community Hospital Services (item number 1) (id 180f2362-a2d5-4711-9b12-61d39bb0580f)
In-Patient Care (item number 1) (id 9671c02b-f5e0-427c-ad73-c68ac3f005b9)
Nhs Abortions (item number 1) (id 2ed55195-adca-4eda-8945-da59b82496e5)
Elderly Care (item number 1) (id a997b9fd-51da-41ff-be69-9c9faf91ecb8)
Health Services (Oxfordshire) (item number 1) (id b727f940-35b7-41cf-8272-b418b56268c2)
Worcester Royal Infirmary (item number 1) (id 1696b9f5-0cda-4634-b77e-e22f31dc02a2)
Out-Patient Waiting Times (item number 1) (id 83dfa85d-a91a-4ac0-8497-fc7de964074f)
Cardiology Services (East Lancashire) (item number 1) (id b383f125-ce1b-463b-b536-3f8956a3d508)
Primary Care Groups (item number 1) (id 19e9d261-f7a3-4889-badb-fa5c0b9d007f)
Health Inequality (item number 1) (id 9a4efbf2-e9b9-48e5-8037-5b42e35e9c87)
British American Tobacco (Records) (item number 1) (id 99aedf97-81aa-4c7a-9ccc-6fb1cfcedb02)
Ritalin (item number 1) (id 69fe574b-9961-4fc0-a511-6320d4b06a30)
Waiting Times (item number 1) (id c214a462-7a3f-4e16-96a2-6c61e5354a40)
Nhs Personnel (Violence) (item number 1) (id b94b92a1-48ec-4ed1-b2de-4686cc66a540)
Smoking (item number 1) (id 6b2e04e1-820a-4aa9-9721-d70f6d418f4f)
Disablement Services (item number 1) (id 43c0dbeb-4e34-477a-bcde-1b678b4718a6)
Hepatitis C (item number 1) (id ea48cff2-d761-4a06-ac90-a5a9a7e1be74)
Organ Removal (item number 1) (id a9a85afd-ec4a-4b3e-9cfa-4a1432594eff)
Correspondence (item number 1) (id 79c94186-1384-4f8f-be10-b063d8ef4915)
Public Appointments (item number 1) (id 31ee90cf-2194-4681-9935-a2b1c38f2322)
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (item number 1) (id 40282a9c-b257-4297-9514-417c7390a42e)
Telemedicine (Shropshire) (item number 1) (id 5dae9d2c-4a28-45f4-8495-5a5de1f953cb)
Patient Confidentiality (item number 1) (id 02688ad3-7e84-4e5e-ad39-4a99a43edbbd)
Fraud Investigation Unit (item number 1) (id 985d7354-45e5-4718-a74e-ec9184f2fd35)
Wheelchairs (item number 1) (id 4da91635-bbd4-4a60-93d1-ffcc77713343)
Adoption (item number 1) (id f7dbb4e1-2645-480b-95ed-c40fccda7ae5)
Spinal Injuries (item number 1) (id 68da5e6e-9cd8-4ed3-93ea-f51d4c558d1a)
Research Data (item number 1) (id 8cc2dd6f-cfd4-43ed-9c26-73e062b8335f)
Primary Care Trusts (item number 1) (id 3b43cf1f-43cc-4751-bb89-7875bd856fff)
Dispensing Appliance Contractors (item number 1) (id caf8483a-f5de-483c-98e2-8712708dd3f6)

Environment, Transport And The Regions

Wood Committee (item number 1) (id 9de6001a-e46d-4143-8cd5-6f0c9a9220ca)
Mobile Telephone Masts (item number 1) (id e725594e-a79b-4bed-9f83-1a7b174b26f6)
Environment Agency (item number 1) (id a4c140ca-29d4-44c6-b1b2-7605a8ca7f60)
Benson V Boyce (item number 1) (id 6fb8bd90-639e-4d7c-94ce-6f1ae5bdfed3)
Road Safety (item number 1) (id 8d3304e8-8035-46b1-8432-b53434eeaf97)
London Underground (item number 1) (id 7e5323ea-4d81-4dd5-9ac0-e944318c4b3c)
Foreign Aircraft (Millennium) (item number 1) (id 958d2f0c-c802-477a-88df-8b39cef77a83)
Ladbroke Grove (item number 1) (id f27ff246-12a0-496b-bec9-92a0e2ec7d9d)
Al2 Link Road (item number 1) (id 24cef3f8-62ee-41be-a18a-92f30f75a2b8)
Environment Council (item number 1) (id b1fb302f-3a41-4878-bff1-79524287e00f)
Fuel Poverty (item number 1) (id a72f785d-f1d1-42cb-a0f2-ceb83925ea1a)
Bascule Bridge, Lowestoft (item number 1) (id d1195228-cc13-4d26-bdde-dffe85acd42d)
Old Vehicles (item number 1) (id 8ae5f3f7-b3d4-40db-9704-2885e9b21203)
Green Ministers Committee (item number 1) (id ca4ebf7d-6ee8-4895-9d1f-6cdad9fe7231)
Mot Testing Stations (item number 1) (id d67dbf48-ded9-452f-9d65-1a02d44120b0)
Water Industry Redundancies (item number 1) (id cc13b8ea-264d-40d8-bbff-45f981848f40)
Water Quality (Mersey Basin) (item number 1) (id 2fd377e9-792f-4343-bc80-5c4d63f144a4)
Street Works (item number 1) (id 69ca3dd7-35ba-429f-ab9e-ac35e47593e6)
Land Use Policies (item number 1) (id e263f77c-a6b7-47a2-97c6-974416e06efd)
Manchester Metro (item number 1) (id a4cb45da-054b-4237-a18a-ec19fd10f140)
Sea Sewage Outfalls (item number 1) (id 6e084512-eb78-4a80-be09-2264eb217347)
Wildlife (item number 1) (id aefc1bc4-d782-4ee7-96ef-e283f066c08a)
Leasehold (item number 1) (id 2b6acfe3-a608-40f3-add7-cf6b7a8835b3)
Housing Stock (item number 1) (id 52390e5d-04dc-4a29-b707-9399c6cb5bc7)
Housing Need (London) (item number 1) (id 80fa0d10-dd7e-48b1-b1dc-d659e951ae82)
Homelessness (item number 1) (id 10891690-0bbe-4eb6-a1e9-3b9cc32ae4ee)
Standard Spending Assessment (item number 1) (id 25a35622-9787-43b5-9c4e-9adb7737ae1c)
Dennis Dart Buses (item number 1) (id 9e5158ac-fc1c-41aa-856d-d37c812846f7)
Revenue Support Grant (item number 1) (id 2c17c29f-3988-4470-a4aa-ac0584f98fe8)
Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act (item number 1) (id 82587d1e-dd07-4ef6-a0f9-60685c66f508)
Transport Direct (item number 1) (id 26e6414f-b624-44b3-afa2-b3228f6a4409)
Business Rates (item number 1) (id cab021a4-d6ef-4883-b894-a262b783baf7)
Conveyancing (item number 1) (id 40037627-81af-4bd8-b0ef-4b977f0d6d80)
Council Tax (item number 1) (id a1b64f9a-a14c-4b3c-aca1-755a0eb23e8e)
Hedgerows (item number 1) (id 918d8597-ccfb-4bbb-9e8e-28c415eaa236)
Soil Strategy (item number 1) (id a001b085-fb82-453e-bb34-d95dc8fea542)
Regional Airports (item number 1) (id 187fe570-5685-48dc-a467-c95e951bdd27)
National Air Traffic Service (item number 1) (id 6df06693-05bf-4463-9e91-b93c5296c0a7)
Lighting Column Replacement (item number 1) (id d4d64a00-6c20-4c2b-8474-7fe254748212)
Rail Safety (item number 1) (id cd03904c-8b35-4646-aa92-991e6194576b)
Greater London Authority (item number 1) (id 24a76ee9-1c05-4321-80e0-74f3ba576a17)

Education And Employment

Secondary Class Sizes (item number 1) (id 0f889eab-d8da-4460-924d-8721c6f9a333)
Grammar Schools (item number 1) (id 00a8771e-631d-461d-9cf5-4648b4144bae)
New Deal (item number 1) (id 4bba7da9-e178-4176-8cb9-f24693177bc0)
Co-Operatives (item number 1) (id ed373cf3-e3b9-4606-a754-54f92a57ecec)
Performance (item number 1) (id 8a36b83a-d191-46b0-989b-556e09cd7f84)
Free School Meals (item number 1) (id cc2db06f-07e7-4a93-851a-0bcb32907cb7)
Student Loans (item number 1) (id d4e66d3f-f0a3-43d0-a382-64c8e71c70d1)
One Service (item number 1) (id b4c51b7c-c785-4914-add8-622f8d6731ed)
Level 3 Qualifications (item number 1) (id 54f49546-03e4-4873-b32d-8f3fc03955cd)
Home Teaching (item number 1) (id df59f4a8-3576-4243-83db-ddf732f98272)
Lea Management (item number 1) (id 2ec1012b-0bf2-4981-b131-c835990db3cf)
Barnet Schools (item number 1) (id aa22fae9-106c-4029-9e71-00c59269f3f2)
Funding (Lancashire) (item number 1) (id 6f48e293-557d-491d-bcb0-c63fdc87c18b)
Sixth Formers (item number 1) (id 892d7226-dbe6-4b27-bc1c-709c03607c66)
Maintenance Allowances (item number 1) (id fcb53038-0b18-4b62-af24-428d83a6b266)
Fee Collection (item number 1) (id 2786ce9d-e3d0-4c13-a89e-9a1331e69467)
Competitive Tendering (item number 1) (id 0696fa70-be20-468c-acd7-4e7987e6dd41)
Staff Secondments (item number 1) (id af709965-5527-4b91-a0e3-7624e2f8ec10)
Project Charlie (item number 1) (id 7576bc3a-f3a0-4d9f-a039-299c398ff9cc)
Higher Education Institutions (item number 1) (id 4b74d49f-cfc7-42c1-82fc-e919a1d5a051)

Treasury

European Monetary Institute (item number 1) (id 50257b6f-ffd1-4357-9a1e-3677b971bc00)
Free Television Licences (item number 1) (id dbc68274-3ac8-412f-a3d9-235ceb998115)
Unemployment Figures (item number 1) (id 532aa0f1-065a-4fbe-b57b-f3d6518808a5)
Employee Sickness (item number 1) (id b42119de-19c5-43fa-9836-447be7c507c2)
Economic And Monetary Union (item number 1) (id b07ccc9e-95ae-4b2c-9216-097fad1d070e)
Private Finance Initiative (item number 1) (id ec9d385d-6e18-4087-9b3c-900b9932f4ca)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id 6d5ef122-11d3-4c05-b4b6-f7630696cb33)
Working Families Tax Credit (item number 1) (id 36809699-d22b-41a7-a8b8-8cadda45ab3c)
Double Taxation Agreement (item number 1) (id 3d261605-56bb-4aad-bcf2-1e1315933f7f)
New Taxes (item number 1) (id 32c25058-4f4f-4c25-997c-179859f3b6d3)
Vintage And Veteran Vehicles (item number 1) (id bfd26318-84a3-477c-ac6c-89be602dfe3b)
Environmental Tax Revenue (item number 1) (id 9acdcb34-bea4-4d94-a317-4d0820f8e708)
Land Settlement Tenants (item number 1) (id 8cc06872-55da-467b-8a10-ee2695d37afb)
Vat (item number 1) (id b8066ce6-51e2-4414-a730-2cb728d5baa1)
E-Commerce Taxation (item number 1) (id acf71b3e-543f-4d36-a6cb-ea933f9421e7)
Double Taxation (item number 1) (id 34be20fe-9adf-49d1-8ced-0f2e75912d05)
Mortgages And Pensions Website (item number 1) (id 5c5f17b2-1c9e-47cf-8fbc-f8fd85e95fe1)
Eu Budget (item number 1) (id 5a58bc9d-ca03-4710-8455-73fbd018ec0e)
Public Investment Programmes (Psbr) (item number 1) (id a93566a0-c7a7-4604-a049-24abd815701f)
Resource Accounting (item number 1) (id 6cdc557a-ae39-4baa-90dc-da7df9c6aac8)

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