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Commons Hansard for 5 December 2001 (Volume 376)

From the corrected (daily) version. Last updated 25 February 2026 at 12.36pm.

Written Answers

Content for Written Answers.

Written Answers To Questions (item number 1) (id 6d941e28-5fed-46e9-8398-3828d8ff990b)

Trade And Industry

Post Office Users' National Council (item number 1) (id 02f44df3-e62b-4df7-a9e7-72923b9481ee)
Bnfl (item number 1) (id d8b24256-ac47-4b37-ba07-80995701b16d)
Investment, Lancashire (item number 1) (id 32df0151-bf2b-431e-9691-4676c9347b9b)
Manufacturing (Teesside) (item number 1) (id 28249da9-9422-4e34-a87d-746ea85ba5b3)
Small And Medium Enterprises (item number 1) (id 55d0727d-3e28-43c9-bd14-fb13b21b8f6b)
Farmers, Kent (item number 1) (id 8655e72d-a719-4ce4-b190-e1e486386ced)
Foot And Mouth (item number 1) (id e89ca021-6015-4e00-ae97-22a7b79e30b0)
Ofgem (item number 1) (id beb6762a-023e-4ae1-8284-bed0a1a9c6fd)
Online Trading (item number 1) (id 92e7bb1d-375e-4168-afd3-b7b69af1c487)
Sudan (item number 1) (id 651e9b38-8c5f-4422-bb59-92b7e4538673)
Bilateral Aid (item number 1) (id aa3058c3-5654-4594-b168-0b06293dc6b6)
Insolvency Service (item number 1) (id 7f5347a0-bf36-45d3-863c-4067f3b1dde0)
Women's Employment And Pay (item number 1) (id 2b945eb6-5c9e-4c5f-b640-3ae5cdba1b09)
Motor Vehicles (item number 1) (id 673def88-3461-4908-9c45-a6a7546a5a4a)
Fireworks (item number 1) (id 41863e7d-d42e-49b5-a5ab-79822005e978)
Small Businesses (item number 1) (id e38c5dda-10aa-4916-82f4-62574ef75355)
Employment Tribunals (item number 1) (id 94531231-9621-4c49-b235-9781bc58770a)
Departmental Initiatives (item number 1) (id f6c11cb7-589a-4f0a-8596-f08de9dc627e)
Gambling (item number 1) (id 2b9e9c01-a362-4e0b-baba-5ed1f31376ce)
Public Bodies (item number 1) (id 471bebe3-bb7b-4b28-bd71-b94a8421afb1)
Yemen (item number 1) (id 94fd8bef-a94c-4934-b63f-73b4a2aa513a)
Departmental Expenditure Limit (item number 1) (id 9afda18e-8051-403b-95f3-df322c2aae99)
Regulations (item number 1) (id 0b98a77d-745c-4ecc-9489-9b3fcc62527f)

Treasury

Unemployment Count (item number 1) (id 36e88463-4728-42fc-9629-cfad1a465e15)
Census (Twickenham) (item number 1) (id 49871773-4c43-4f9a-af87-e9364f05c1c7)
Graduate Earnings (item number 1) (id 182786f8-d72b-4372-b836-78f739937550)
Financial Products (Quality Standards) (item number 1) (id faf66dfe-2121-46e4-a0a4-bc9e9ad20ce7)
Pre-Budget Report (item number 1) (id 5b95ae8d-c8e4-40c5-ab2f-7e66d4dc0da5)
Cross-Border Payments (item number 1) (id 19880339-79ff-4d33-a528-850b23e7125e)
Regulatory Standards (Crown Dependencies) (item number 1) (id 2dba2166-5172-48dd-aa95-b6ad6b2b91ed)
Financial Regulation(British Overseas Territories) (item number 1) (id c59dbcee-dbad-4504-b983-9c79638e1c33)
Stamp Duty (item number 1) (id 6310fe4b-095d-44b0-8b43-836c0dcd3670)
Lloyd's (item number 1) (id 9f1b96e2-e395-4398-b2a3-87a2bdcd7966)
Building Insurance (item number 1) (id 80c58d40-88c6-4611-adc1-ecdad82dbb53)
Capital Spending (item number 1) (id 4fbf2df2-ed23-445e-88ad-ae94170e4bea)
Crude Oil Prices (item number 1) (id e4706d7d-0df7-4a94-bb1c-910d41e85bbb)
Eu (Fraud) (item number 1) (id 7a4abb96-ffdd-4a41-9df5-8cf6d90e0d5e)
Special Advisers And Press Officers (item number 1) (id 58f8d79a-2e79-4cbb-b563-88dcf7ae5193)
Airline Industry (item number 1) (id 705fbb6e-c9de-4251-80d7-a8a0005ac069)
Public Expenditure (Health) (item number 1) (id 8a6b6387-913d-4448-8e7f-4f81a16c484a)
Tax Credits (item number 1) (id f5d440c4-7ca4-40f3-9810-df23b94444f0)
Debt Repayment (item number 1) (id 74d1d230-8abd-4e2f-a4f4-261fac203cd8)
E-Mail Information Service (item number 1) (id 7f0925d7-5427-4c44-9f04-f69e39791cdc)
Public Expenditure (item number 1) (id 212213eb-066a-43a3-af87-4124c94382e2)

Defence

Donald Rumsfeld (item number 1) (id 28dcb4a8-2f7d-417f-9343-c5b7879abc94)
Nuclear Accidents (item number 1) (id ca4383e7-3ed7-4c86-92cc-01867777c24f)
Depleted Uranium (item number 1) (id bbe41e50-89c9-45ca-b405-5bb27a203ccb)
Gulf War (Immunisation) (item number 1) (id 9648b5de-c7cb-4300-a1ce-456993c315ae)
Afghanistan (item number 1) (id ac5e8ed4-bcca-4298-a902-0880a9e5aebf)
Base Security (item number 1) (id 98b81d79-d7d4-4d10-9ea2-3aeccb57611f)
Gulf War (Medical Records) (item number 1) (id 864be51e-0874-47db-add0-b8c66680fc47)
Service Aircraft (item number 1) (id d717ee5e-9543-432a-874f-3ae67cc87aeb)
International Military Services Ltd (item number 1) (id 896d185d-0cde-4756-8df3-9de4eb77f852)
Fylingdales (item number 1) (id 17b36a35-adea-4182-9664-8726e339cae0)
Aircraft Movements (Nuclear Weapons) (item number 1) (id 5c5dcf8e-518c-4b57-9d33-c935b3250411)
Royal Marines (item number 1) (id aa9b4488-335d-4e3f-a69e-1fe5781d24ec)
Spanish Airspace (item number 1) (id 5d207106-2d20-463d-b6d5-e4886d2b2fc6)
Efficiency Savings (item number 1) (id 97a1a5bb-89db-4ff3-a6e7-adbf281ed98a)
Military Personnel (item number 1) (id 89ae5d46-2a0e-4cb7-bcdc-8a72f832aa50)
Armed Forces Housing Stock (item number 1) (id 1000d977-aa5e-463a-94f0-38cf0b264d34)
Armed Forces (Northern Ireland) (item number 1) (id 93a91eb7-2428-4b3d-bcac-d878966116aa)
Personnel Statistics (item number 1) (id fef84acb-076f-4b0c-b5c6-6b1e96a2441d)
Kosovo (item number 1) (id b6e7ad3f-bd33-462c-90a5-b1286e506032)
Eu Deployment (item number 1) (id 723793dd-00c4-4812-b802-0fa589285a0b)
Overseas Service (item number 1) (id 440db076-596c-4a93-b5e4-ec881eebbddf)
Departmental Assets (item number 1) (id 0ee98472-617b-4a2a-8220-47d2aae5cbb9)
Civilian Employees (item number 1) (id 9b0d9583-1909-4d84-a5f8-343074f501e2)
Aircraft Orders (item number 1) (id da00b0c1-0c90-4c2d-b4f8-b521d8864a1e)
Lynx Helicopters (item number 1) (id db380e56-3ee6-4165-9dea-effcb26db8e8)
Apache Helicopters (item number 1) (id b341ce57-8e6c-4b29-8d95-b513f0bb2e9c)
Helicopters (item number 1) (id c8002bc6-0911-452d-b58a-8b859ad63eae)
Aircraft Carriers (item number 1) (id c11b805e-f26f-4418-8f6e-7b454df20fae)
Quinetiq (item number 1) (id 13b992ba-397f-4ce2-9fcf-1932ea7c5c52)
Historic Buildings (item number 1) (id 02e0dd0a-79f8-4222-96fe-7a9fd3ad4974)
Defence Spending (item number 1) (id 8a91dd83-a436-4f14-bdc6-622c00258f1b)
Warships (item number 1) (id da1af54d-2880-401d-b9a1-aeb0a19f3a44)
Submarines (item number 1) (id 6bc34c22-67b7-4d47-96fc-9e251e5fd7a0)
Royal Navy (item number 1) (id ad769157-16f1-41e6-86bc-b065fa68091b)
Defence Budget (item number 1) (id c8b503cd-82be-41f3-b4b4-71a3bb05bd1f)
Tanks (item number 1) (id 4dacbfa4-6fdf-4c98-8c55-3ca073fa2ce9)
Spending Review (item number 1) (id 3c23decf-95b7-420c-ab96-cb86ff4bc6ae)
Low Flying (item number 1) (id d1d0ef75-cf3d-42c1-9312-8ffae6249c5b)
Procurement (item number 1) (id 13b5fa20-47a7-43f7-9aa4-c10e8ad2e896)
Fixed Wing Aircraft (item number 1) (id 6d74b6a7-13f3-4ca9-a99f-c8912e6d0849)
Defence Secondary Care Agency (item number 1) (id f383c357-f62d-4629-9d06-e2845a40931f)
European Security And Defence Policy (item number 1) (id ade612a2-7ed9-4cc5-833f-dfce258d3d35)

Health

Antipsychotic Drugs (item number 1) (id 041761f3-c328-4ecc-a71d-5993bc25d5d9)
Private Hospitals (Complaints Procedures) (item number 1) (id df2fcb1a-264b-4488-8cae-4e07a73ef967)
Freedom Of Information (item number 1) (id dff64afa-80cd-45b4-b59b-f716f42611f1)
Radiation Hazards (item number 1) (id 35f09867-6564-4589-86ab-22d24b7b1c4f)
Medicines Control Agency (item number 1) (id c94e5ece-435d-44fe-a42a-e0df29e8ae05)
Departmental Expenditure (item number 1) (id 344096f6-c6f5-45ce-8fe4-2b5848f6ca18)
Departmental Environmental Strategy (item number 1) (id 9a9aef86-8119-417e-b180-d1dce341757e)
Directorate Of Counter Fraud Services (item number 1) (id b56de720-747e-40c7-8378-ea9fd779cc9b)
Prescription Fraud (item number 1) (id ed38677f-2208-40fc-be4b-c177b37d1ad3)
Bed Census (item number 1) (id 43f699ec-3f1f-4b4f-a985-1479ae804ebd)
Welfare Foods (item number 1) (id cc94a884-bded-4f6c-bbc6-cf12d2c9593c)
Health Inequalities (item number 1) (id 3d8d18e6-6324-4373-a4d2-dc80e112ab8b)
Generic Drugs (item number 1) (id 9e504ac4-6c2b-4be6-8a17-016151e46f44)
Community Dental Services (item number 1) (id c2cca894-7eb0-458e-af06-0ad5e76b6733)
Hospital-Acquired Infections (item number 1) (id 6c8ca05f-61d4-4321-80d6-d3d96c90d47e)
Cancelled Operations (item number 1) (id 3a3a8f36-9707-44a6-9c35-74ad06480476)
Tuberculosis (Buckingham) (item number 1) (id cb87f532-2874-435b-94a6-032cede99861)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (item number 1) (id 45700dd1-21a5-4697-8ef3-e105ccdd5cf0)
Smoking-Related Deaths (item number 1) (id ce98d7c8-adfa-41f6-ad50-e4aaf7f638c2)
Water Fluoridation (item number 1) (id 1945fa74-f677-42a3-b9e5-0ae0e4c70884)
Nhs Direct (item number 1) (id 58dc49aa-3e19-4e17-888b-e6f335bbdb72)
Nhs Dentists (item number 1) (id be2ad74d-cde6-45f4-9784-b6f39af07f93)
Walk-In Centre, Loughborough (item number 1) (id 94633a7d-780a-48b7-b9fc-67e803b367b6)
Loughborough General Hospital (item number 1) (id 284a8ee5-be23-4dc7-a498-365156473df8)
Hospital Beds (item number 1) (id 4df0e88f-c5b9-44c6-a762-f8d01394dc91)
Mmr Inoculations (item number 1) (id 5ed4ce71-f07a-47b7-8698-17a163822390)
Nursing And Residential Care Beds (item number 1) (id 079e53c3-a475-469d-82f1-690bbebd1f67)
Trolley Deaths (item number 1) (id 12ae826d-a34b-4898-9163-76ebf141a5f2)
Mrs Brenda Jones (item number 1) (id 18f391fb-942a-4ef0-bdb5-b5c2bdfef22c)
University Hospitals Of Leicester Trust (item number 1) (id e45b39ca-d707-4525-841d-241366fea46f)
Strokes (item number 1) (id cf4414e7-2505-49c6-ba3e-c8025cc85268)
Nursing Cadet Scheme (item number 1) (id f70d3d2a-6a7a-41b8-99a8-89e4c580416e)
Protection Of Children Act (item number 1) (id fa688b6a-6d26-4f20-9923-420822360d42)
Ministerial Visits (North-East) (item number 1) (id 824097ef-169f-4c1e-aa9e-e877454c5414)
Victoria ClimbiƩ (item number 1) (id 23eac75e-89d4-46c2-a091-5f02bd7383bd)
Winter Pressures (item number 1) (id cb148d4a-847a-4091-851b-083fe8dcc48b)
Child Protection (Unborn Children) (item number 1) (id 0942ec0c-4f65-4ddf-a9e7-9c40bbbf810c)
Strategic Health Authorities (item number 1) (id 8c7e0d80-ec3c-4324-ab3b-ff5a6fb64d10)
Diabetes (item number 1) (id ad6a3083-af62-4d03-97b7-d39f213cade5)

Transport, Local Government Andthe Regions

Rail Track Capacity (item number 1) (id a47c349f-7d18-4cc1-bce5-ee5b80e74f56)
London Underground (item number 1) (id cc37706a-ee9e-4c8b-9847-3010344b2d1e)
Channel Tunnel Rail Link (item number 1) (id b25757c6-3db1-4cc1-b192-5412d0c54d6b)
Passenger Vehicle Safety (item number 1) (id a1acf281-2d9b-4586-9734-585e9305c3d6)
Road Accidents (Somerset) (item number 1) (id a7827d5d-855e-4ae3-a05e-642f8f95de3a)
Millennium Dome (item number 1) (id e1224d8f-ea7b-4892-87df-6501978a4664)
Renewco (item number 1) (id 1868afe5-74c2-4548-b7f6-ba0eff4e5b01)
White Papers (item number 1) (id ac46a870-648b-4eed-814b-038a80874c26)
Railtrack (item number 1) (id 3982c10c-3208-428e-9845-3c02d3dc27e2)
West Coast Main Line (item number 1) (id c4909100-58fe-4800-8e35-809d3fcba98c)
Nats (item number 1) (id b3454102-fd56-4890-805d-9a2bd52422cd)
Standing Committee On Regional Affairs (item number 1) (id 950e3a93-413c-473f-84d9-96b5dc20320b)
Urban Regeneration (item number 1) (id 7c570cdd-036c-409e-8a7a-73d00b9c108a)
Property Purchases (item number 1) (id 6a583229-ac09-40c2-a2cd-53825ba7f893)
Edinburgh Waverley Station (item number 1) (id 8fd14c66-c4ee-4820-8a6b-ce868ee4a70a)
Departmental Expenditure Limit (item number 1) (id a6cd589d-0970-4cf2-b2af-e6979b2988f0)
Parking Taxes (item number 1) (id 5b1b589b-f93d-48b5-917c-e5fb523f7cb7)
Statutory Off Road Notification Scheme (item number 1) (id 7ccd7c74-4b6e-4f92-bd29-4d10865afe8a)
Road Accidents (Fire Service Costs) (item number 1) (id 3a0fb00b-4a54-4b19-a61f-2d87c37610ed)
Single Sky Agreement (item number 1) (id f973fb55-38f4-403e-bb53-ba32e99355f8)
Port Health Budget (item number 1) (id 61decec7-b154-416c-bb9c-d40b3ec4036e)
Audit Commission Inspections (item number 1) (id 43188e99-caab-4d75-bcbb-c8d5917da7c8)
Special Advisers (item number 1) (id fea3d6ce-0ba2-4293-9653-5dd3c0539676)
Rural Bus Challenge (item number 1) (id 1047d786-8256-4e17-ae61-50646f1a4081)
Building Regulations (Domestic Boilers) (item number 1) (id a1b712f4-7795-4307-a68f-ce0e223d2cb2)
Headlights (item number 1) (id 1db9b4d0-b89a-41d2-8f7a-f75d2ca81805)
Health And Safety Executive (item number 1) (id 7463499a-5a04-487b-9116-88b3a2dfe846)
Fire Authorities (item number 1) (id 3dc2e86d-5952-4361-917d-72694764e631)
Electoral Pilots (item number 1) (id 7f60087b-5c12-4625-8d15-08e1a0fdba98)
Visually Impaired Voters (item number 1) (id 44e09623-99c8-48f8-80e6-f8ac6803060d)
Public Service Agreements (item number 1) (id 4a868912-74e9-4ebf-b072-72e7734f8409)

Environment, Food And Rural Affairs

Livestock Markets (item number 1) (id 1c83a81a-eb77-4e0b-a2d7-a303fab1003d)
Rural Bus Services (item number 1) (id 0f1a6e69-6f0f-4283-9f43-7c89ff58a741)
Energy Policy (item number 1) (id 1bcc5e0d-96a2-4e3a-b4cb-5f354a39f70d)
Animal Holdings (item number 1) (id 7eefddee-40d7-4c9c-b59d-71d334143e54)
Trade Effluent (item number 1) (id a05698eb-37fa-4bcc-a575-f8eef45467ce)
Advisory Group On Veterinary Medicines (item number 1) (id fb3fab0c-20e9-46ee-aeb7-b175c61e49a4)
Fuel Poverty (item number 1) (id c77ac152-8252-4841-aeb1-9bfccee79211)
Foot And Mouth (item number 1) (id 2e3f6d04-5ded-4ca6-8707-e07cc95b1ac8)
Cattle Markets (item number 1) (id 15bc666f-bc14-4e35-bba6-7a702b533614)
Livestock Movements (item number 1) (id 2b8f3625-60a3-43c8-86b3-b73ec2fc4927)
Elvaston Landfill Site, Derbyshire (item number 1) (id 73754f2a-1f14-4fcb-ba0b-09a3afe7fa34)
Fishing (Scotland) (item number 1) (id cf407b3f-046e-4e1c-8800-92947fdfd58f)
Sea Fishing (item number 1) (id 77276037-b886-44fd-b763-6ea724619900)
Timber (item number 1) (id 61a1bb17-417e-4782-9fae-282e3cc899c9)
Fridges (item number 1) (id 5c25d59d-d1b2-452a-a14a-501453f8ebd0)
Flood Prevention (item number 1) (id d7835b2e-0989-48e6-8707-00b1159be894)
Flooding Costs (item number 1) (id 0f7b8166-7607-4939-9389-0b0fc719a36c)
Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (item number 1) (id b5033559-e955-4ff4-90ec-3736c1d84047)
Tuberculosis (item number 1) (id 6053bbbd-79ed-4762-9015-8e390cb6664e)
Waterways (Freight) (item number 1) (id 404d5cd5-f23b-4910-a6f4-8cb211a7c382)
Scrapie (item number 1) (id 595d369d-5732-45d3-9b6d-a905d05be99d)
Age Discrimination (item number 1) (id f80a823a-8328-4639-9be6-2c4c7a7fd8c1)
Farm Incomes (item number 1) (id 9d85c979-771b-4e57-bc93-0345abf72563)
Countryside Stewardship Scheme (item number 1) (id 2c90673e-a7d7-439d-b529-d1285f975585)
Finisher Feed (item number 1) (id 8c5493e8-4cde-47f8-af00-0a6b3d0b8208)

Education And Skills

Supply Teachers (item number 1) (id d6a32ad5-f10c-47a5-9205-f292c0412d52)
Teacher Vacancies (Upminster) (item number 1) (id 1f953d86-d2a8-42e9-902d-d77354d83299)
Teacher Vacancies (Havering) (item number 1) (id cc06232a-8a2f-4641-b46b-53d4526d47ef)
School Repairs And Maintenance (Upminster) (item number 1) (id 8cdabc0b-6d23-49bc-bc15-e5a551b0cb66)
Teachers (East Yorkshire) (item number 1) (id 52fe5ea1-85a5-4ab4-ad95-95de15150337)
Public Bodies (item number 1) (id 75edbfb2-7ec5-434a-b468-7a129bc351d7)
Public Spending Bodies (item number 1) (id 296cc4e9-f312-4fc2-9391-563d85fb843c)
Nursery Education (item number 1) (id f4d3357a-4c26-432d-a443-2f6aca4a062a)
Class Sizes (item number 1) (id f223b68e-a69b-4f43-9c36-673d4ac36447)
Asset Management Plans (item number 1) (id 02ec4dd0-7f63-4284-a0bb-77bc06102eb0)
Wiltshire Schools (item number 1) (id 5d70a22c-eb5f-4d99-8883-368c7f641993)
Sixth Forms (item number 1) (id f1ce2ff1-85b5-41d2-944f-5d099d591bd7)
Research Assessment (item number 1) (id 84790303-b77c-4f91-bfa5-dc56e4dfc2a5)
Community Colleges (item number 1) (id f5c57882-8b43-4b27-b618-0e1551c0e21b)
School Budgets (Spending Streams) (item number 1) (id 6283aa4b-4a89-48b3-9f78-980aa2d79fe1)
Student Loans Company (item number 1) (id e4776007-9d16-4623-8c38-4713c8cd6045)
Sure Start (item number 1) (id add0ee15-8e36-4273-89e5-7e66a94d8233)
Student Loans (item number 1) (id 67cdbf83-4f50-4249-8e41-32b50cd98627)
Parliamentary Ombudsman (item number 1) (id d3672a42-d53e-4180-a5c6-15ac4a334f46)
Teachers (item number 1) (id 1621b34f-c7c7-43f5-85a9-4b0c1c2ef294)
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